Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
...it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
Daniel Gillies -
I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
Kate McKinnon -
I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
Lacey Chabert -
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
Daniel Barenboim -
It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
Eddie Money -
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
Harlan Coben -
Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
Imogen Heap -
It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
Aaron Neville -
Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
Mallory Ortberg -
I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
Gavyn Davies -
I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
Yami Gautam
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
Tammy Duckworth -
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
Vera Wang -
I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
Ted Yoho -
I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
Sam Yagan -
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
Ian K. Smith -
I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
Gale Anne Hurd
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This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.
Hadley Freeman -
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
Vladimir Nabokov -
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
Victor Hugo -
I've met with a group of very distinguished, experienced police chiefs a few weeks ago. They admit it's an issue. They've got a lot of concerns.
Hillary Clinton -
There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.
Sarah Doudney -
...it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli