Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.
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When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.
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Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.
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It's always weird doing love scenes. And the thing is, you can't really photograph two people kissing naturally, because then you wouldn't be able to see anything.
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Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
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I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.