Acostado De Cucharita Quotes

The time is now proper for us to reform backward; more by dissenting than by agreeing; by differing more than by consent. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I just want us to be together," he said. "I mean, know it's not possible. But why not? [ ... ] Don't you want us to be together? -Oliver ~ Melissa De La Cruz

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing." ~ Peter De Vries

Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven. ~ Ally Carter

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. ~ Barbara De Angelis

Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. ~ John Green

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them. ~ Honore De Balzac

( ... ) rest content and satisfied that as you are caught in the noose of love it is one of worth and merit that has taken you, and one that has not only the the four S's that they say true lovers ought to have, but a complete alphabet; only listen to me and you will see how I can repeat it by rote. He is to my eyes and thinking, Amiable, Brave, Courteous, Distinguished, Elegant, Fond, Gay, Honorable, Illustrious, Loyal, Manly, Noble, Open, Polite, Quickwitted, Rich, and the S's according to the saying, and then Tender, Veracious: X does not suite him, for it is a rough letter; Y has been given already; and Z Zealous for your honour. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Once again I have rubbed shoulders with a truth without fully comprehending it. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens. ~ Alain De Botton

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro. ~ Eddie Redmayne

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled. ~ Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. ~ Paul De Man

He stood in the doorway, holding the back of his own arms. And I knew what I felt. It was a monstrous intimacy with another being, an intimacy that made even the rapt moments of life seem dim and under control. Never, never in all my existance had I been threateened with an intimacy quite like this. ~ Anne Rice

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them. ~ Alain De Botton

Everyone knows that not to go forward on this road is to turn back, and not to gain ground is to lose. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I have a horror of it. I have lived in China without ever being curious enough to put a pipe to my lips. It is not a question of virtue. I do not like pharmacopoeia. I like lucidity. It is my guiding star. I will have nothing to do with the vertigo of opium which, with the single exception of De Quincey, is no friend to poetry. It is a filthy poison. ~ Blaise Cendrars

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's. ~ Diane De Poitiers

A bad attitude is like moths, it will eat everything good you have in your life. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

The last madness I'll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me. ~ Gerard De Nerval

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it. ~ Alain De Botton

Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs. ~ Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities. ~ Thomas De Quincey

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day. ~ Malcolm De Chazal

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument. ~ Honore De Balzac

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon. ~ Walter De La Mare

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Is it true that in Petersburg you belonged to some secret society of bestial sensualists? Is it true that you could give lessons to the Marquis De Sade? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget! ~ Alfred De Musset

Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections. ~ Gary Krist

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive. ~ Alfred De Musset

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ~ Charles De Secondat

If God exists, Id be the first to be told. ~ Anna De Noailles

When a man loves a woman, as our old troubadours used to say, even if he has heard or seen something that puts his beloved in a bad light, he should believe neither his ears nor his eyes, he should listen to his heart alone. ~ Marquis De Sade

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. ~ Honore De Balzac

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. ~ Gijs De Vries

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A] ~ Michel De Montaigne

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life. ~ David Icke