Apprentissage De La Quotes

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius. ~ Juana Ines De La Cruz

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to see if I have the rhythm right. That's why my first drafts take a really long time. ~ Matt De La Pena

All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project. ~ Luis De La Fuente

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions! ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Any meal at the front was an exercise in war-time ingenuity and devotion of the lower classes for their officers. The Petite Marmite a la Thermit was from beef-broth cubes, the tinned Canadian salmon was called Saumon de Tin A & Q Sauce. The Epaule d'Agneau Wellington, N.Z. was army ration lamb, and the terrine of foie gras aux truffes was a can of foie gras that I had bought from the French commanding general. There was a salad of fresh lettuce from somewhere (no one asked in what or whose fertilizer it had been grown in since we would all soon be dead anyway) and the Macedoine de Fruits a la Quatre Bas was a can of mixed fruit. Then fresh strawberries soaked in Cognac. All the usual wines starting with an amontillado, Pommery Extra Sec, Chateau Steenworde Claret, Graham's Five Crowns Port, Bisquit Dubouche Grande Champagne Cognac, Brandy and a Waterloo Cup. ~ Jeremiah Tower

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail. ~ Floyd Skloot

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.
- Oliver Hazzard-Perry ~ Melissa De La Cruz

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors. ~ Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best ~ Oscar De La Renta

The secret of great style is to feel good in what you wear ~ Ines De La Fressange

He'll is just one apostrophe away from Hell. Keep that in mind. ~ Gabbo De La Parra

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. ~ Francois De La Noue

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz ... a beautiful chaos. ~ Josephine De La Baume

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it. ~ Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

The pleasure of love is in loving. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You said we would never be separated, ever again.
And we will not. Not ever. There is a way to be together always. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

I wouldn't say I'm a hostile person. ~ Paz De La Huerta

El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo." The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We ~ Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain. ~ Walter De La Mare

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Be strong and solid in your uniqueness. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

She nodded ... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jack."
"Yes?"
"I ... " she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words.
It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Usually we praise only to be praised. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

We're the villains you root for in the story. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

You cannot let the darkness overcome the light. ~ Melissa De La Cruz