Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PolicyWhoseWhoDemandsHisDoes

When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.

Jenna Blum

StormMomWeatherDriveMeanSee

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

Andrzej Wajda

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Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.

Mehcad Brooks

FamilyHealthMeImportantTwoMost

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mary McCarthy

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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Michael Polanyi

PhysicsCannotEvenDefinedAtomic

The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

Doc Rivers

WinningThinkEnoughCreditChoose

I was always aware of the ticking clock of time, always. I was very aware that I had a lot to do, and I wanted to do those things in the best possible way that I could and probably the biggest way I possibly could.

Clive Barker

TimeBestWayPossibleClockAlways

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

Bobby Seale

FutureAmerican DreamWorldThink

I know I have to be ready for every single ball, every pass, every challenge. Everything has to be at 100%.

Philippe Coutinho

ChallengeReadyKnowEverythingBall

TV is what sells your product.

Sheryl Swoopes

ProductYourTVSells

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Scott Anderson

LifeWarMy LifeNeverBeenNumber

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

Tiberius

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