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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c65124 | The people, as Cicero says, may be ignorant, but they can recognize the truth and will readily yield when some trustworthy man explains it to them. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 85a23e9 | For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them. | money | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| 13bb55b | For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion. Wherefore, matters should be so ordered that when men no longer believe of their own accord, they may be compelled to believe by force. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| b5618c8 | Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation; | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 63969dc | Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolo Machiavelli wrote, "Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good." | Robert Greene | ||
| 793f463 | Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| c769000 | The Romans recognized potential difficulties in advance and always remedied them in time. They never let problems develop just so they could escape a war, for they knew that such wars cannot be avoided, only postponed to the advantage of others. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| e03f80c | it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 1a8f82b | What's it like? Being married? Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs. | Alan Brennert | ||
| 57c5c3e | Who can doubt the presence of God in the sight of men whom He has given wings? I recall that so precisely because I've had time to consider my error. God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure .. | Alan Brennert | ||
| 4da2ccb | The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. | mind | Isabel Allende | |
| f2a2530 | Hay grandeza y dignidad en la tragedia, por eso es fuente de inspiracion, pero no quiero tragedia, por inmortal que sea, quiero una dicha sin bulla, intima y muy discreta, para no provocar los celos de los dioses, siempre tan vengativos... | relationships | Isabel Allende | |
| 3e4e6ee | Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it. | freadom intellectual-freedom reading | Isabel Allende | |
| 32003b1 | y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun asi quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxigeno. | destino pasión separació | Isabel Allende | |
| 4b8a227 | Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy. | Isabel Allende | ||
| adf7c70 | The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a52f816 | He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the thrashings of a newborn; it was impossible to spice them up with the salt of evil or the pepper of submission. | Isabel Allende | ||
| b0c4132 | The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart. Our decision to be together has to be renewed again and again; that keeps us on our toes. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 865014d | Asi te recuerdo, en calma | Isabel Allende | ||
| b8d526e | 'kthr m ykhyfny fy lshykhwkh@ lys lwHd@ , wnm ltb`y@ | older | Isabel Allende | |
| 5127953 | hl stmwt Tflty? - l '`rf `n hdh, lknWh st`ny kthyran, l shkW `ndy bdhlk. -mldhy bh? - Srr `l~ lHb. whw shrW qwyW. lshkW 'nh trkt lnfdh@ mftwH@ fy llyl@ lSfy@ wdkhl fy jsdh 'thn nwmh. lywjd sHr DdW hdh. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 0544f26 | Esos desaires no me quitan el sueno: no tengo que agradar a todo el mundo, solo a quienes en verdad me importan, que no son muchos. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f232c7a | If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera," he would say again and again" | Isabel Allende | ||
| f989989 | La discusion se prolongaba y ambos se perdian en una oratoria confusa que los dejaba agotados, acusandose mutuamente de ser mas testarudos que una mula, pero al final se daban las buenas noches con un beso y quedaban ambos con la sensacion de que el otro era un ser maravilloso. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 7da0eb3 | Ella se consideraba a si misma como un cometa navegando en el viento y, asustada de su propio motin interior, cedia a veces a la tentacion de pensar en alguien que pusiera freno a sus impulsos; pero esos estados de animo le duraban poco. Cuando meditaba en su futuro se tornaba melancolica, por eso preferia vivir desaforada mientras le fuera posible. | Isabel Allende | ||
| ee15785 | Que hay al otro lado de la vida??Es solo noche silenciosa y soledad? ?Que queda cuando no hay deseos, recuerdos ni esperanzas? ?Que hay en la muerte? Si pudiera permanecer inmovil, sin hablar ni pensar, sin suplicar, sin llorar, recordar o esperar, si pudiera sumergirme en el silencio mas completo, tal vez entonces pudiera oirte, hija. | Isabel Allende | ||
| ee66b3b | El orgullo de quien se cree hermosa daba a su andar un ritmo insolente. | Isabel Allende | ||
| ed3d722 | Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 73ae04d | The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow | Isabel Allende | ||
| 638c47f | Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop. | Yann Martel | ||
| 1956874 | Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get. | can-get death grab jealous life life-lessons possessive tiger zoo | Yann Martel | |
| 1142393 | I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. | Yann Martel | ||
| d250d98 | If we, citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice out imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. | Yann Martel | ||
| 154bc7e | No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live. | Yann Martel | ||
| d678b94 | If we citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the alter of crude reality, and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. | Yann Martel | ||
| 91430eb | If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, "Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go!" -- do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, "With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel." | Yann Martel | ||
| 4486b6f | We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. | Yann Martel | ||
| f0ed040 | Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative. | Yann Martel | ||
| 401e2dc | Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you. | Yann Martel | ||
| 0e4c10e | Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8994192 | What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man. | god | Yann Martel | |
| e5fbbec | How strange, this habit of weeping. Do animals weep? Surely they feel sadness--but do they express it with tears? He doubts it. He has never heard of a weeping cat or dog, or of a weeping wild animal. It seems to be a uniquely human trait. He doesn't see what purpose it serves. He weeps hard, even violently, and at the end of it, what? Desolate tiredness. A handkerchief soaked in tears and mucus. Red eyes for everyone to notice. And weeping.. | Yann Martel | ||
| adfff10 | The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. | emotion life love | Yann Martel | |
| dde76cd | The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love, that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. | Yann Martel |