Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Petrarch

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• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Kind
  • See

• Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Like
  • Period
  • Christmas

• When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • She
  • Night
  • Better

• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Time
  • Wonder

• When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Long
  • Legacy

• It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.

  

  Masayoshi Son

• I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Time
  • Book
  • Mother

• Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

  

  Marge Schott
  • Good
  • Beginning

• Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Path

• The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Country
  • America
  • Sacrifice

• I've kind of done everything late.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Done

• ..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Society
  • Painting

• When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.

  

  Jonathan Stroud
  • Free
  • Nice
  • Coffee

• It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

  

  Norman Mailer
  • History
  • Actions
  • Sentiments

• Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Doubt
  • I Believe
  • Clean

• Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

  

  Petrarch
  • Sentiments
  • Contrary
  • Inclination