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

• Margaret had always thought a man seduced a woman by making her aware of his charms: his body, his wealth, his kisses. How naive she had been. Ash Turner seduced her with the promise of her own self.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Man
  • Naive
  • Charms

• There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • May
  • Space

• Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Men
  • Law
  • Consciousness

• At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Way
  • Boys
  • Faith In God

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

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Kings
  • Objects
  • Presumption