Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Up
  • Political
  • Courage

• I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Place
  • Just

• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Serious

• I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Love
  • Place
  • Cowboy

• I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Great
  • Place
  • Colombia

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Criticism

• I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

  

  Larry David
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Doing

• Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • Bad
  • Place
  • Insecurity

• When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Moment

• I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • Lost
  • Pain

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Moment

• I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Work
  • Moment
  • Goodness

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Human
  • Place

• Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Fall
  • Place
  • Warm

• I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Need

• Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Nothing
  • New York

• I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Children
  • Done
  • War

• I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

  

  William Golding
  • India
  • Australia
  • Rushdie

• Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

  

  Petrarch
  • Moment
  • Place
  • Ennobles