Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

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• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

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• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

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• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

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• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  

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• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

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• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

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• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

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• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

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• We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.

  

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  • Small
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• Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

  

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• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

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• I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

  

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• Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  

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• The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

  

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• I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.

  

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• There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

  

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• The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

  

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• I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.

  

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• That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

  

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• At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.

  

  Kalisha Buckhanon
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• Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Eye
  • Judge