Philippe Petit Quotes

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.

Philippe Petit

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Believe
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Fear
  • Diversity
  • Destroy

• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Choices

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Political

• Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Use

• I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Reason

• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Failure

• I don't believe that competitions are important.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Believe
  • Important

• I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

  

  Alan K. Simpson
  • Believe
  • Women

• See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Fear
  • Wind
  • Trouble

• Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

  

  Francis Parker Yockey
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Period

• My dad was so much fun growing up.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Growing

• The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Time
  • Truth

• I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Water