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

  

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

  

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

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Country
  • America
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• 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

• The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Nature

• The man of humanity delights in mountains.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Humanity
  • Mountains

• So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

  

  William James
  • Mean
  • Taken
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• She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Together
  • Faces
  • Answers

• My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Company
  • Solitude

• 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