Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• I think we know how to do Mars.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mars

• I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Choice

• My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Breakfast
  • Fish
  • Lunch

• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Important
  • Song
  • Meaning

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Me
  • Childhood
  • Challenges

• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Identity

• I don't let anything kill my spirit.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Spirit
  • Anything

• Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Problem

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Home
  • View
  • Debt

• I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Golf

• The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • True
  • Eyes
  • Walk

• Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Drug
  • Available
  • Effective

• Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • History
  • Irish

• The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Health
  • States
  • Morbid

• The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Virtue
  • Human Beings
  • Regarding

• Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!

  

  Michael Kors
  • Fashion
  • Things
  • Divine

• the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.

  

  C. D. Broad
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Foundation
  • States
  • Composite