Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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• I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

  

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• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

  

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• You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

  

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• I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

  

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• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

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• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

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• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  

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• All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

  

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• I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

  

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• I have some sarcastic sides of me.

  

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• A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

  

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• I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone in your flat like a Roman know-it-all.

  

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• It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

  

  Petrarch
  • Born
  • Raised
  • One