Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

Petrarch

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• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Experience
  • Magic
  • Movies

• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Like
  • Pieces
  • Sell

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reality

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Water
  • Leave

• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Well

• I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Night
  • Cool

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Feelings

• Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Character

• If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Work
  • Funny

• Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Practice
  • Silly

• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Humble
  • Most
  • Jealousy

• A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Tree
  • Same
  • Alive

• It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Black
  • Always
  • Strength

• Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

  

  Keaton Stromberg
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Realizing

• The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  

  Argus Hamilton
  • Mistake
  • Memory
  • Conscience

• I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

  

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
  • Sensibility
  • Intrigue

• The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Pain

• Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

  

  Petrarch
  • Pain
  • Years
  • Toil