Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

Francesco Guicciardini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FutureExperienceWiseWorldDepend

I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.

Jesse Plemons

ParentsStartDoingMoviesKind

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Robert Staughton Lynd

SufferingOwnOnlyGloriousThing

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

Stipe Miocic

ConfidenceBestMeWorldGotThem

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Robert Casey

GoodPowerManPoliticalSenseWho

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Lucy Liu

CharacterLanguageYouCostumeOnce

In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.

David Shields

FearFatherMotherHistoryMeHim

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Sherry Stringfield

FindPatientTerribleCondescending

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Paul Theroux

AloneYouFallBackNothingRealize

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

Paul Weller

YourselfWritingSongSayingYou

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

Tim Heidecker

SchoolPeopleCrazyKidCrazy People

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

Maria Montessori

LifeNatureChildCareDoneBurden

When I think about people like Queen Latifah, who literally found a script for me to star in, that's what I want to be for somebody. When you look at someone like Queen Latifah, or you think about the Will Smiths, those people are multifaceted. They do so many different things, but most important, they give back.

Keke Palmer

QueenPeopleMeThinkSomeoneLook

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