Ludovico Ariosto Quotes

Che chi ne l'acqua sta fin'alla golaBen'e ostinato se merce non grida.

Ludovico Ariosto

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• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Women
  • Period
  • Journey

• 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

• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Admire

• It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • Difficult
  • Solitude

• The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Great
  • Win
  • motivation

• Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Tradition

• I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Moving

• Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Time
  • Black
  • Play

• Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Will

• I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Talk
  • Well
  • Sit

• More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Effort

• I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Like
  • Being
  • Well

• In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • God
  • Day
  • Justice

• I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Parents
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one’s logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Respect

• What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Education
  • Picture
  • Tree

• You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Men
  • Success
  • Fear

• I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • True
  • Feeling

• Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Evil
  • Accepts
  • Oppressor

• Che chi ne l'acqua sta fin'alla golaBen'e ostinato se merce non grida.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto