Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Francesco Guicciardini

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• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Important
  • Why
  • New

• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mistake
  • Place
  • First

• If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Think
  • You
  • Film

• There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Force
  • Democratic
  • Ideal

• I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • People
  • Lucky
  • Weight

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Failure

• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Healthy
  • Stand

• If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Freedom
  • Care
  • Injustice

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Leaders
  • Pace
  • Stride

• If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • May
  • Jesus
  • Waiting

• The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Bridge

• All things human change.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Change
  • Human

• I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Experience

• Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Succeed