Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Petrarch

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• Sighs
• Tempests

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• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Day
  • Movies

• One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Live
  • Day

• Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Always
  • Sales

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Strong
  • Me

• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Musicians

• When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Look
  • Makeup

• I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.

  

  Cam
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Society

• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Yoga

• In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Opinion
  • Changes
  • Fix

• Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Freedom
  • Popular
  • Bring

• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Time
  • You
  • Honor

• My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• Stand ye calm and resolute, Like a forest close and mute, With folded arms and looks which are Weapons of unvanquished war.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • War
  • Calm
  • Forest

• Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Destiny
  • Hungry
  • Restore

• I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Beautiful
  • Crazy
  • Sea

• I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

  

  Deborah Kerr
  • Hair
  • English
  • Sexy

• Urban civilization is warring civilization.

  

  Jacques Ellul

• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

  

  Petrarch
  • Tears
  • Floods
  • Sighs