Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini

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For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

Daniel Baldwin
- People
- Change
- Thoughts
Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

Fiona McIntosh
- People
- World
- Book
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

Patch Adams
- World
- Money
- Power
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

Xavier Rudd
- Music
- Believe
- Change
If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.

Viktor Orban
- World
- Try
- Will
Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

Orison Swett Marden
- World
- Great
- Step