Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you...

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Give
  • Finished

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Things
  • Known
  • Destroying

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Progress
  • Very
  • Guys

• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Book
  • Amazing

• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Music
  • Artist

• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Conservative

• The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Words

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Donna

• The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • War
  • Together

• If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

  Major Owens
  • School
  • Together
  • Education

• Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Problem
  • Goal
  • Order

• To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Slave
  • Stomach

• It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Night

• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Business
  • Knowledge
  • Vision

• I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you...

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Words
  • Prudence