Ansamblu De Joaca Quotes

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion. ~ Honore De Balzac

...the habitants, dressed in their brightest colors and wearing their shoes, lined the Route de Rivière, waving and shouting, "Bon jour, Monsieur Reneau. Congratulations on your marriage." Once he passed however, they whispered to each other. "Poor Monsieur Reneau. Certainly he is a fertile man, two wives, sixteen daughters, yet no son."
"The Reneau seed is cursed," some surmised but others held out hope for their Seigneur. "Perhaps this third wife will give him a healthy boy, eh?"
Zacharie, third Lord of Paradise.
The Last Lord of Paradise––Generation Three ~ Vivian LeMay

A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant. ~ Anthony De Mello

When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. ~ Alain De Botton

No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its own people's rights, or else pay dearly for its neglect to put itself on a level ...
A Power which interferes with its people only in certain respects cannot increase its warlike potential beyond certain limits. To pass them, it must revolutionize those respects and give itself fresh prerogatives. ~ Bertrand De Jouvenel

To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one. ~ John De Ruiter

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too. ~ Baden Powell De Aquino

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Woman is not a fixed reality but a becoming; she has to be compared with man in her becoming; that is, her possibilities have to be defined: what skews the issues so much is that she is being reduced to what she was, to what she is today, while the question concerns her capacities; the fact is that her capacities manifest themselves clearly only when they have been realized: but the fact is also that when one considers a being who is transcendence and surpassing, it is never possible to close the books. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Suenos. Dulces Suenos.
He must be painting upstairs.
I can feel it.
I remember when his father was just a baby and I called her Mama for the first time and she became Mama for all of us; Mama de la casa and his father would wake up in the middle of the night and scream in his crib and nothing would make him stop, nada, and Mama would get so exhausted she would turn her back to me and cry in her pillow.
I would smooth her hair-it was black, Basilio, as black as an olive-and I would turn on the radio (electricity, Basilio, in the middle of the night), to maybe calm the baby and listen to something besides the screaming.
Mama liked the radio, Basilio, and we listened while your father cried-cantante negra, cantante de almas azules-and it made us feel a little better, helped us make it through.
I had to get up early to catch the streetcar to the shipyard, but when the crying finally stopped sometimes the sun would be ready to pop and Mama's breathing would slow down and her shoulders would move like gentle waves, sleeping but still listening, like I can hear her now on this good bed, and Basilio-Mira, hombre, I will not tell you this again-if I moved very close and kissed her shoulders, she would turn to face me and we would have to be quiet Basilio, under the music, very, very quiet....
So this I want to know, Basilio.
This, if you want to live on Macon Street for another minute.
Can you paint an apple baked soft in the oven, an apple ~ Rafael Alvarez

I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail. ~ Bill De Blasio

There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This negative quality makes them so disagreeable that, even if they do what we want them to or agree with what we say, they always lose the pleasure that they might have received had they not started off so badly. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~ Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. ~ Bernard De Mandeville

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. ~ Jason Patric

Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today. ~ Randall Jarrell

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance. ~ Aubrey De Grey

Our self-awareness impresses itself on us so cogently, as individuals and as a species, that we cannot imagine ourselves out of existence, even though for hundreds of millions of years humans played no part in the flow of life on the planet. When Teilhard de Chardin wrote, "The phenomenon of Man was essentially foreordained from the beginning," he was speaking from the depth of individual experience, which we all share, as much as from religious philosophy. Our inability to imagine a world without Homo sapiens has a profound impact on our view of ourselves; it becomes seductively easy to imagine that our evolution was inevitable. And inevitability gives meaning to life, because there is a deep security in believing that the way things are is the way they were meant to be. ~ Richard E. Leakey

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The path that is best for you is the path that keeps the best of you in play. ~ Bernie De Koven

We are inundated with advice on where to travel to, but we hear little of why and how we should go, even though the art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial, and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonia, or 'human flourishing'. ~ Alain De Botton

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times
in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait. ~ Anne Rice

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children. ~ Alain De Botton

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

I may not be saying this everyday. But i want to Thank You for all that you do! I Love You! ~ Stanley Alexander De Smith