Petrucha Last Name Quotes & Sayings

If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety. — William Shakespeare

In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave ... " It seems to me that the same is true of the much older [geological stratigraphical] history of Europe. — D. V. Ager

The best compliment I've gotten was being compared to Randy Johnson. We're both hard-throwing. — Jennie Finch

How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed? — Jolene Perry

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow
haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to
I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline
they aren't remade. — Wallace Stegner

Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day! — Robert Munsch

I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands. — Jon Oringer

I aim to make the fiction flexible so that it bends itself around the facts as we have them. Otherwise I don't see the point. Nobody seems to understand that. Nobody seems to share my approach to historical fiction. I suppose if I have a maxim, it is that there isn't any necessary conflict between good history and good drama. — Hilary Mantel

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that we have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is vital not only for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself-a point that seems to escape many people. — Gerald Durrell