Petto Quotes & Sayings

Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew. — Fabian

When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked. — Laozi

I'm very much a technical person. — Ashley Wagner

He would enter silently and wake Magdalyn roughly. He loved Magdalyn's scream. He would beat her savagely and acuse her of plotting against him.
If she begged and swore it wasn't true like most frightened women would, he'd throw her off the balcony. If she cursed him, he would bang her, matching her defiance with an equal degree of brutality, and she would live another day. Before he left, he would hold her tenderly in his arms and whisper that he was sorry, that he loved her. Decent women always wanted to see something good in him. He shivered in anticipation. — Brent Weeks

No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there. — H.L. Mencken

If life is misery, why do we endure it? — Roberto Bolano

Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Everything has beauty. Even the ugly. Because without the ugly, there would be no beauty. Because without beauty, we would not survive our pain, our sorrow and our suffering. — Madeline Sheehan

Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself. — Fan Bingbing

It is a rare moment where one can glimpse the truth of lost moments, bonds that were chosen and broken, and the decisions that remain through time and distance. — Ava Leigh Stewart

But my story is as much one of perseverance and drive as it is of talent and luck. I willed it to happen. I took my life in my hands, learned from anyone I could, grabbed what opportunity I could, and molded my success step by step. Fear of failure drove me at first, but as I tackled each challenge, my anxiety was replaced by a growing sense of optimism. Once you overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, other hurdles become less daunting. — Howard Schultz

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. — Dean Karnazes

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body. — Sarah Silverman

This was a kaleidoscope of beauty, the dials spinning, ever changing, but never anything short of spectacular. — Kristen Ashley