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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• 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.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• 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.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Love
  • Want

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• 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!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• 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
  • People
  • Country
  • Rights

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• 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
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Fall

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Great
  • Fiction
  • Favourite

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Man
  • King

• What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.

  

  Catullus
  • Love
  • Water
  • Air

• Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

  

  Mike Joyce Buzzcocks
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• 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
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Humanity