Claudius Machiavellian Quotes & Sayings

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? — Benjamin Disraeli

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it. — Horace Mann

The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution. — Joseph J. Ellis

The only certainties in life are death and taxes. — Mark Twain

Felicity laughs and takes on the tone of a fashionable lady. Darling, the Bryn-Joneses have just done the most marvelous thing in their parlor with human blood. We simply must have ours done straightaway! — Libba Bray

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum. — Kate Braverman

I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes. — Dean Koontz

As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner. — George Lucas

I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be. — Sinqua Walls

I have no doubt who I am. — Jeanne Moreau

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day. — Mike Schmidt

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? — John Keats

We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are open ontologically to the possibility of encounter. — Andrew Root

The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon. — Conrad Black

Sara couldn't help but think that she had somehow missed the moment when life was meant to begin. For a long time she had simply drifted through it, reading. While everyone around her was teenaged, unhappy, and foolish, this hadn't been a problem. But then suddenly everyone had grown up around her, and she had done nothing but read. — Katarina Bivald