Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
JOHN PETIT-SENN Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of o...
JOHN PETIT-SENN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
JOHN PETIT-SENN True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
JOHN PETIT-SENN True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
JOHN PETIT-SENN Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
J. PETIT-SENN True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
J. PETIT-SENN Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of o...
J. PETIT-SENN We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
J. PETIT-SENN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
J. PETIT-SENN Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as i...
JEAN PETIT SENN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidde...
JONATHAN PETIT SENN I think that will be the test in the Southeast for AT&T. Is it swooping in to make an acquisition, o...
JAMES SENN Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the s...
PHILIPPE PETIT I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturall...
PHILIPPE PETIT Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wi...
PHILIPPE PETIT Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
PHILIPPE PETIT I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggl...
PHILIPPE PETIT In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
PHILIPPE PETIT On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have th...
PHILIPPE PETIT I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harb...
PHILIPPE PETIT When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was ...
PHILIPPE PETIT Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,...
PHILIPPE PETIT My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
PHILIPPE PETIT I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the stre...
PHILIPPE PETIT I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the hi...
PHILIPPE PETIT I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what ...
PHILIPPE PETIT I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, hi...
PHILIPPE PETIT If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood...
PHILIPPE PETIT Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of...
PHILIPPE PETIT For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says '...
PHILIPPE PETIT I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the ...
PHILIPPE PETIT Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations...
PHILIPPE PETIT I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. ...
PHILIPPE PETIT I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
PHILIPPE PETIT I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
PHILIPPE PETIT If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and ...
PHILIPPE PETIT As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and ...
PHILIPPE PETIT If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk ...
PHILIPPE PETIT If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.
PHILIPPE PETIT I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really lear...
PHILIPPE PETIT My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artisticall...
PHILIPPE PETIT I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And...
PHILIPPE PETIT I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I ...
PHILIPPE PETIT As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.
PHILIPPE PETIT I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
PHILIPPE PETIT If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four y...
PHILIPPE PETIT I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made ...
PHILIPPE PETIT I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
PHILIPPE PETIT It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal ...
PHILIPPE PETIT It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
PHILIPPE PETIT On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except...
PHILIPPE PETIT I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the h...
PHILIPPE PETIT I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
PHILIPPE PETIT I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a crimin...
PHILIPPE PETIT They miss the aura of him. He is a protector for the other guys in the team. I think they are missin...
EMMANUEL PETIT Women are ultimately all that matters in life. Everything that we do is for them.
EMMANUEL PETIT I love England, one reason being the magnificent breasts of English girls.
EMMANUEL PETIT I know I won't be with Chelsea next season,
EMMANUEL PETIT The club is following a path with which I cannot identify,
EMMANUEL PETIT Arsenal have really missed Patrick's driving force in midfield, and they haven't replaced him. They ...
EMMANUEL PETIT For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.
FRANçOIS PETIT My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
PHILIPPE PETIT We seek riches, power and glory all in order to make them happy
EMMANUEL PETIT Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an ...
PHILIPPE PETIT How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass an...
PHILIPPE PETIT The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simpl...
PHILIPPE PETIT Try 'Thank-you'," Ted said, giving me a hug (with the requirement of pounding me fraternally on the ...
BLAKE PETIT Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
PHILIPPE PETIT The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to ...
PHILIPPE PETIT I'm taking my time to come back,
EMMANUEL PETIT They don't want to keep me and I don't want to stay.
EMMANUEL PETIT It was every year under threat,
EMMANUEL PETIT I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theate...
PHILIPPE PETIT Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, ev...
PHILIPPE PETIT Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the go...
PASCALE PETIT I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, /...
PASCALE PETIT One despairs of others so as not to despair too much of oneself
HENRI PETIT We have not offered four million euros, nor have we offered a four-year contract, as some people are...
LAURENT PETIT The deal is on the right track. We remain very hopeful it will go through this weekend.
LAURENT PETIT We are receiving plenty of offers. In a fortnight we will have decided.
JEAN PETIT But I don't want that. I think we need a change. And if we find a coach tomorrow I'd step aside glad...
JEAN PETIT It's his choice and we have to respect it,
JEAN PETIT It was clear for me. Lille was meant to be my last match and despite the fact that we won it, I don'...
JEAN PETIT I hope that the club's managers have understood what I said when I became the caretaker,
JEAN PETIT I accepted to take care of the team so that they can rediscover some sort of balance and stability.
JEAN PETIT Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
J. P. SENN Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice...
J. P. SENN The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
CLAUDE LE PETIT A slender child, you don't know if he's built like this or if he's ill. For a child to have beautifu...
DR CHRISTIAN PETIT I am sure that unless attitudes change, in 10 or 15 years the poor classes will be obese and the ric...
DR CHRISTIAN PETIT Eating habits are certainly changing quickly.
DR CHRISTIAN PETIT My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE