Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Vittorio Alfieri

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• Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

  

  Kate Williams
  • Son
  • Sister
  • Kings

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • New York

• There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Question
  • Kings

• In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Family
  • Think
  • English

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Politics
  • Kings
  • Holding

• I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Natural
  • Objects
  • Physical

• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Kings
  • Stone

• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • She
  • Remember
  • Rock

• In this very moment I'm king In this very moment I slayed Goliath with a sling

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Moments
  • King
  • Kings

• Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Chaos
  • Reign

• Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Objects

• And the first king was a lucky soldier.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • King
  • Lucky
  • Soldier

• Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Reason
  • King
  • Kings

• Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Life
  • Good
  • King

• Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Success
  • Present

• A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Choices
  • Vanity
  • Objects

• But then, in Piazza di Carbonara, from stones she moved on to weapons, and it became the place where men fought to the last drop of blood. Beggars and gentlemen and princes hurried to see people killing each other in revenge. When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Blood
  • Revenge
  • Weapons

• Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Hard
  • Rain
  • Paris

• I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Kids
  • Brother
  • Hero

• If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Growing

• For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Kings
  • Objects
  • Presumption