#rin

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#always #boring #character #concern #swinging

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#career #cd #first #i #i am

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#caused #contrary #example #first #good

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#his #lacks #legitimate #never #prince

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#beethoven #i #jackson #like #michael

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#fear #inspires #less #love #offending

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#nature #people #prince #understand

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#among #being #caused #contemptible #disarmed