Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Vittorio Alfieri

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  

  Quintilian
  • Words
  • Child
  • First

• Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Sewing

• Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Done
  • Singing

• On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Business
  • High
  • Value

• I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Society
  • Start
  • Lawyer

• Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Innovation

• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

• The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Home
  • True

• You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bigs

• Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Virtue
  • Succeed

• If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Men
  • Passion
  • Calm