Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

  

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• There are no rebels in the cinema business.

  

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• I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

  

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• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I don't have many friends.

  

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

  

  Yasser Arafat
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• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
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• Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.

  

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• There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

  

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• There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

  

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• When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.

  

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• My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

  

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• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  

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• Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

  

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• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

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• Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

  

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• Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.

  

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• I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

  

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• Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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  • State
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• In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.

  

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• I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

  

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• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

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• For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • Credit
  • Conquering