Petitorio Quotes & Sayings

I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over. — Marilyn Monroe

There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse. — Muriel Wace

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction. — Henning Mankell

I now leave, not knowing when or whether I may return, to a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell. — Abraham Lincoln

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth - I count that something of a miracle. — Henry Miller

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? — Aravind Adiga

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone. — D.H. Lawrence

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. — Rachel Carson

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment. — Dorothy Richardson

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us. — Edgar Mitchell

Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui
In the green fields of Lebennin!
Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea
The white lilies sway,
And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin
In the green fields of Lebennin,
In the wind from the Sea! — J.R.R. Tolkien

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels. — Peter York

a fresh start can be as alluring as a good memory. — Jessica Hawkins

He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then. — David Packard

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. — Tariq Ali