Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

To preserve Nature's chiefest boon, that is freedom, I can find means of offence and defence, when it is assailed by ambitious tyrants, and first I will speak of the situation of the walls, and also I shall show how communities can maintain their good and just Lords.

Leonardo da Vinci

• Good
• Nature
• Freedom

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• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

  

  Becky G
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Road

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Science

• Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Deep
  • Competition
  • Mistakes

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Feel
  • End

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Love
  • American

• I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Grow

• Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Long
  • Children
  • Heart

• I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • House

• I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Good

• Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

  

  Walter Crane
  • Designer
  • Staff
  • Lean

• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• To preserve Nature's chiefest boon, that is freedom, I can find means of offence and defence, when it is assailed by ambitious tyrants, and first I will speak of the situation of the walls, and also I shall show how communities can maintain their good and just Lords.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Freedom