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
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
Fiona Apple
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
Octavia E. Butler
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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
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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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
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I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.
Misha Collins
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Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose that's why I was always intrigued by, and terribly envious of men who had no trouble at all in bedding a vast variety of desirable women.
Edward Sorel
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There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.
Oprah Winfrey
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
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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
