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

• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• 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

• Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Problem
  • Busy

• 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

• I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Life
  • Character
  • Rest

• 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

• If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Children
  • Kids

• I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Band
  • Road

• When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Time
  • Long

• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Courage
  • Lose
  • Meaning

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

  

  Ludovico Ariosto