Petroccia Quotes & Sayings

The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal. — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies. — Casey Affleck

Whatever you desire in your life requires action — Akosua Dardaine Edwards

He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Jihad will continue even if I am not around. — Osama Bin Laden

Who would dream of bringing charges against the devil when you are in hell? — Annick Cojean

There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right. — Julian Fellowes

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made. — John Stuart Mill

Churchill admired the division of powers in the American government, but he thought they were copied from much older British practices. In 1950 he said: [T]he division of ruling power has always been for more than 500 years the aim of the British people. The division of power is the keynote of our parliamentary system and of the constitutions we have spread all over the world. The idea of checks and counter checks; the resistance to the theory that one man, or group of men, can by sweeping gestures and decisions reduce all the rest of us to subservience; these have always been the war cries of the British nation and the division of power has always been one of the war cries of the British people. And from here the principle was carried to America. The scheme of the American Constitution was framed to prevent any one man or any one lot, getting arbitrary control of the whole nation. — Larry P Arnn

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better. — Zygmunt Bauman

The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human. — Patricia Deegan