Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I really hate to write.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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I really think a good host is just a connector. I'm more traffic cop than star. My job is to get people on and off the program, and hopefully keep the audience entertained.
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[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
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It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.
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The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
