Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

Francesco Guicciardini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: March 6, 1483 - May 22, 1540

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It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

Maura Tierney

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To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Alvin Toffler

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The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.

Rupert Friend

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How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'

Michael Leunig

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I've loved all forms of animation.

Ming-Na Wen

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I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.

Diane Kruger

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I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

Bruce Springsteen

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I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'

Winston Marshall

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I was a major Anglophile. My brothers and I were raised knowing both languages, French and English. My dad was born in Austria, educated in Britain, and then went back to France. My mom was born in England, but raised in Egypt and Malaysia. We were a globetrotter family.

Sebastian Roche

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I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

Scott McCallum

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I spend a lot of time at home with my kids.

Scottie Pippen

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When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.

Twyla Tharp

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