Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  

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• Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

  

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• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  

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• We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.

  

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• My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

  

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• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  

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• Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.

  

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• I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

  

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• I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.

  

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• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  

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• I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

  

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• They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.

  

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• In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

  

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• I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

  

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• Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

  

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• Be natural and use your head.

  

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• If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.

  

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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  

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• A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.

  

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• To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

  

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• I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

  

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• The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Loss
  • Forces
  • Adversaries