Petrarchan Love Quotes & Sayings

If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled. — Toba Beta

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him). — John Piper

A lot of professionals are crackpots. — Jenny Holzer

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government. — Gene Robinson

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art. — Maggie Nelson

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. — Henry Walter Bates

Now I just accept that we're born each day and we die each night. In between we live our lives. — Doug Cooper

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that. — Cynthia Ozick

I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills. — T.I.

I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce. — William Golding

I am very, very sorry to leave you hanging like that, but as I was writing the tale of the Baudelaire orphans, I happened to look at the clock and realized I was running late for a formal dinner party given by a friend of mine, Madame diLustro. Madame diLustro is a good friend, an excellent detective, and a fine cook, but she flies into a rage if you arrive even five minutes later than her invitation states, so you understand that I had to dash off. You must have thought, at the end of the previous chapter, that Sunny was dead and that this was the terrible thing that happened to the Baudelaires at Uncle Monty's house, but I promise you Sunny survives this particular episode. It is Uncle Monty, unfortunately, who will be dead, but not yet. — Lemony Snicket

No one can make you happy other than yourself to choose people to make you happy. — Auliq Ice