Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
R. Kelly -
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. Wells -
I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
Karrie Webb -
A teacher should have a creative mind.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
Carine Roitfeld -
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
Majel Barrett
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I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.
Odette Annable -
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
Tariq Ali -
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
M.I.A. -
It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
Kara Swisher -
The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I'm an emotional guy.
J. R. Martinez
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
Gary Player -
I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
Kate Fleetwood -
I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.
Wadah Khanfar -
My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.
Samantha Harvey -
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
Dallas Willard
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The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.
Douglas Brunt -
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Jim DeMint -
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
Mary Doria Russell -
I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.
John Edwards -
I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
T. J. Miller -
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli