Ludovico Ariosto Quotes

Come ne l'alto mar legno talora,Che da duo venti sia percosso e vinto,Ch'ora uno inanzi l'ha mandato, ed oraUn altro al primo termine respinto,E l'han girato da poppa e da prora.

Ludovico Ariosto

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• Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
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• There is a supply for every demand.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Demand
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• Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Magic
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• Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.

  

  Yossi Sarid
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• Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

  

  Laura Miller
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• At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
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• Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
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• In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
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• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
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• There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

  

  Ian Thorpe
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• I took after my father.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
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• On March 5, I will behead Rafael dos Anjos. I will drag his head through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, through a parade of people I'd imagine. It will become a national holiday also I would imagine.

  

  Conor McGregor
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• If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.

  

  Adam West
  • Character

• We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
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• When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Age
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• Come ne l'alto mar legno talora,Che da duo venti sia percosso e vinto,Ch'ora uno inanzi l'ha mandato, ed oraUn altro al primo termine respinto,E l'han girato da poppa e da prora.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto