Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
Petrarch
Quotes to Explore
-
I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
Carly Fiorina
-
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw
-
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein
-
I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
Forest Whitaker
-
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
Iain Duncan Smith
-
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White
The White Stripes
-
I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
Rafael Nadal
-
I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
Ted Sarandos
-
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle
-
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
-
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
Nancy Pelosi
-
Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
Ram Charan
-
Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
-
I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.
T. D. Jakes
-
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
Oona Chaplin
-
Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
Damian Lewis
-
Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Barack Obama
-
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
Petrarch
