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.
Petrarch
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli
Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
Garth Brooks
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
Dana Spiotta
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Samantha Bond
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.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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.
Yo-Yo Ma
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman
People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
Sam Hunt
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance
I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
Damien Chazelle
If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.
Nadia Comaneci
I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.
John Travolta
First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .
Henry Knox
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
Oprah Winfrey
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
William Hazlitt
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.
Petrarch
