Pietro Aretino Quotes

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: April 20, 1492 - October 21, 1556

Topics

HeartMindBearHighCowardiceThem

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

Joanne Froggatt

ParentsHouseHeightsKindWild

In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.

Megan Fox

LifeTruthMyselfPastPeopleMedia

Ask questions; don't make assumptions.

Angela Ahrendts

QuestionsAssumptionsAskMake

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

WarImpossibleBackWillDrumHold

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

John Piper

ArtBehaviorBeenExploited

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

Sidney Poitier

KindPrincipalMonthDemandEight

Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

Mary Oliver

LifeGoodLiveRainDayPrayer

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

LifeFriendshipHumanSecretRaise

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

Djimon Hounsou

SportsModelingBoxingPracticing

I'm not the average artist.

DMX

ArtistAverage

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

Douglas Rushkoff

ChildrenDecisionsMarketingEconomy

I bike everywhere.

Douglas Booth

BikeEverywhere

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