Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
B. B. King
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
Fiona Apple
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
Octavia E. Butler
It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
Oliver Tambo
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
Hakeem Olajuwon
I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
Adam McKay
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity.
Joe Perry
Aerosmith
I've always been a rebel and it's got me in trouble sometimes, and probably kept me poor. And then again, maybe not, because I might not have the two daughters that I have, you know. And we're all so close now.
Charles Henry Mosley III
Bad Brains
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life.
William Howard Schuman
The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.
Paul Hoffman
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
