Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

Francesco Guicciardini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkFearPowerYourselfSucceed

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

Jerry Falwell

FamilyMarriageValuesGoLifestyle

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Jean Giraudoux

DisciplineWorldManagementProblem

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

John Wesley

HeartMeEvilAmericaWillIndians

I knew before I came to Arsenal what kind of players were here. And of course, in training, you can see how many good players are here; the most important thing is that we work well as a team - that's the most important thing.

Mesut Ozil

WorkGoodTrainingTeamYouKind

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Sidney Blumenthal

InvestigationClearOffHookWere

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.

Robert Winston

HistoryAncestorsJewishClearVery

Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That's why I write a blog. And I read it, too.

Roseanne Barr

GodStartThinkSelfLonelyDie

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Louis C. K.

SchoolMeHigh SchoolThoughtGrades

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

Jonathan Groff

GreatMeSomeoneWouldIdeaAlbum

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

Drew Carey

PainPaperGetJustOnlineRather

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

Antonio Villaraigosa

StupidYouLookLooksSayWant

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

August Wilson

LifeMyselfExperienceSpaceWorld

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