Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

Samantha Power
- Policy
- Foreign Policy
If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

Barbara Walters
- Done
- Because
- Cookie
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

Aaron Swartz
- Work
- Internet
- Movement
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

Maggie Stiefvater
- Country
- Nature
- Beautiful
It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

Jack Antonoff Fun.
- People
- World
- Kids
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Great
- Artist
- Poetry