Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Before all else, be armed.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: May 3, 1469 - June 21, 1527

Topics

BeforeElseArmed

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.

Michael Hirst

HistoryCultureLovedChristianYou

There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.

Stephen Rodrick

HateFootballBlueCollegeGameWhy

When I look at a character, I never look at the size of the role. I always look at the whole person, no matter how much they're featured in the movie.

Toni Collette

CharacterLookPersonMatterNever

It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.

Romesh Gunesekera

LiveTechnologyMeSafetyWorld

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Mary Wesley

LifeLearningChallengePeoplePlace

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'

Mitch Kapor

GreatMeDataWantMisunderstanding

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

Douglas Brinkley

JoyRiverImpossibleAmericanPie

People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books.

Cheo Hodari Coker

PeopleSometimesHip-HopWayBooks

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

Cheryl Hines

SayingStandStrangersEarlyParty

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Allen Tate

LifeFailureInterestingPerfectUp

The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one person is the sovereign; it's that all of the people are sovereign.

Noah Feldman

PeoplePoliticalPersonCoreIdea

I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.

Mark Indelicato

WantHollywoodKidRealShowSome

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