Benvenuto Cellini Quotes

#1. My cruel fate hath warr'd with me in vain
Life, glory, worth, and all unmeasur'd skill
Beauty and grace, themselves in me fulfill
That many I surpass, and to the best attain.

Benvenuto Cellini

#2. For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

Tim Holden

#3. I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.

Benvenuto Cellini

#4. Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

Benvenuto Cellini

#5. It took me years and cost me countless thousands of dollars in lost business before I finally learned that it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

Dale Carnegie

#6. We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.

Hjalmar Branting

#7. When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

Benvenuto Cellini

#8. Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Benvenuto Cellini

#9. A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. I have every expectation that we will see the following become a recognized human disease in the future: Metal Sickness

Steven Magee

#11. True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Frederick Herzberg

#12. Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

Benvenuto Cellini

#13. All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

Benvenuto Cellini

#14. Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#15. The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

Benvenuto Cellini

#16. To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

J. Jack Halberstam

#17. What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

Richard Dawkins

#18. One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

Benvenuto Cellini

#19. When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.

Roy Conli

#20. What does that matter when he makes me happy?" There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her shoulders, as if she wondered for just a moment what that kind of freedom might feel like.

Rae Meadows

#21. Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

Benvenuto Cellini

#22. I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'

Suzy Menkes

#23. There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

Benvenuto Cellini

#24. Desire can make anything into a god.

Mark Doty

#25. A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

Benvenuto Cellini

#26. I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

Benvenuto Cellini

#27. Because your master doesn't control you anymore. He hasn't for years. You're a free bird, Lucky. You are responsible for all your actions now.

Jim Tan