Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

Before all else, be armed.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• You can be very wild and still be very wise.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Wise
  • WIld

• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Money
  • Fate
  • Litigating

• When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • People
  • God

• I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Believe

• I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I've always been interested in the antihero myself.

  

  Billy Crudup

• Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Life

• At medical centers such as the Cleveland Clinic and Kaiser Permanente, teams of doctors and nurses provide coordinated care while working for salary instead of getting paid for every procedure.

  

  Matthew Heineman

• I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Friends
  • House
  • Girl

• You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Time
  • Interesting

• As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Dance
  • Broken
  • Discipline

• There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Long

• 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Church

• I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.

  

  DMX
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• I take all the stress on myself so everyone else can work without stress.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Work
  • Stress

• I feel really comfortable and cute in bikini bottoms that have thick sides.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Cute

• Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream.

  

  Ernest Dowson
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Rule
  • Republic
  • Armed

• I do not wish parties or tendencies, whatever the color, to penetrate into the ranks of the armed forces under any circumstances.

  

  Abd al-Karim Qasim
  • Parties
  • Armed
  • Penetrate

• Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Young
  • Though

• I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Benefit
  • Met
  • Awe

• Before all else, be armed.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Armed