Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
Dani Shapiro
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
Edgar Wright
In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
Tariq Ali
I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
Felicity Jones
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston
Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
Harold Ford, Jr.
The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.
Lord Byron
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
Kathy Acker
It is done to you as you believe.
Ernest Holmes
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Nicholas Sparks
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli