Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
Quotes to Explore
-
Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
-
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
-
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
-
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
-
The surface is all you get of me.
-
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
-
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
-
I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
-
I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
-
My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
-
When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
-
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
-
I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
-
My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
-
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
-
I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
-
I was a sports kid.
-
Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
-
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
-
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
-
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
