Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

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• The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Partner

• The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Space
  • Thoughts
  • Encouragement

• Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Wine
  • White

• Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Personality
  • Human
  • Him

• It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.

  

  Banks
  • Funny
  • Social Media
  • Contact

• I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Work
  • God
  • Present

• I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Effort
  • Feel
  • Performance

• I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'

  

  Iman
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Seen

• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Green

• Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Black
  • Me
  • Stand

• Stay in your heart.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Stay
  • Your

• Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Soup

• In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Reality
  • Chaos
  • Insignificant

• Fresh blood is always good.

  

  Kyle Secor
  • Good

• That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Person
  • Public
  • Written

• When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

  

  Petrarch
  • Learning
  • Books
  • Madness