Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

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• I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Value
  • Never
  • Say

• The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • History
  • Black
  • Amazing

• In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Control
  • Democracy

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Truth

• Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.

  

  Angelus Silesius

• I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Hate
  • Desire
  • King

• When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • People
  • Taken

• I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • World
  • Heart
  • Waiting

• People have not given children enough credit to understand the idea of death. But I really think they do.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • People
  • Children
  • Death

• For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

  

  Janet Frame
  • Good

• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

  

  Johannes Brahms
  • Real

• I love Oreos.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian

• We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Society
  • Stop
  • Learning

• Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

  

  Jan Garbarek
  • World
  • Music

• Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Death
  • Horse

• Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • Done
  • Rock
  • Blues

• I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.

  

  Nicky Wilshire
  • Way
  • See
  • Say

• Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Jesus

• We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Wars
  • Homosexuality

• We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Focus
  • Race
  • Income

• Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded.

  

  D. James Baker
  • Climate
  • Faster
  • Warming

• Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Wars
  • Lords
  • Impoverish