Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

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• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• I want people to know that I'm not just 'Chillin' It.' I'm a real person. There's heartbreak and trials, and I hope I put that in my music.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• Most parents don’t know really their children.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Parents

• Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Animals
  • Cute

• The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Together
  • High

• That's what the general gives me. That's what our budget can withstand.

  

  Bert Williams
  • Budget
  • Gives
  • Withstand

• The more we help others, the more we help ourselves.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Help
  • Helping Others

• Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change.

  

  Adam Braver
  • Change
  • Efforts
  • Human Rights

• He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do artistically, visually, ... I wanted to be part of that vision. It seemed so beautiful and interesting.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Vision

• The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

  

  Petrarch
  • Greater
  • Efforts