
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
Comincionsi le guerre quando altri vuole, ma non quando altri vuole si finiscono.
Variant translation: Wars are begun at will but not ended at will.
Book III, Chapter 7.
Florentine Histories (1526)
Si ricordino i prìncipi, che si cominciano le guerre quando altri vuole, ma non quando altri vuole si finiscono.
da La mente di un uomo di stato
Variant: Comincionsi le guerre quando altri vuole, ma non quando altri vuole si finiscono.
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
As quoted in Uptown Magazine - Winnipeg's Online Source for Arts, Entertainment & News (8 January 2009)
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
Gift Of A Friend
Lyrics, Here We Go Again (2009)
“When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“The journey of change doesn't begin when you intend, it begins when you move.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 155
Diane Sawyer interview http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2003_11_23/story_1024.asp, 60 Minutes (23 November 2003)