Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
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• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Like
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• Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • You
  • Road
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• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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  • Class

• I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Option

• I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Worry
  • Doing
  • Find

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • You
  • Myself
  • Director

• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Mystery

• Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Society
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
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  • Know
  • Football

• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Age

• I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • Women
  • Thought

• The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Mean
  • Fans
  • Special

• I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • President
  • Will
  • Nation

• Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Men
  • Way
  • Popular

• I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

  

  Donna Air
  • Up
  • Money
  • Independent

• We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Stop
  • Names
  • Generations

• If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

  

  Dilip Kumar
  • Family
  • Friend

• Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Power
  • Think
  • Discipline

• It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Trying
  • Power
  • War

• A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Discipline
  • Prince