Astronauta De Marmore Quotes

«Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera
(credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus,
orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus
describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent:
tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
(hae tibi erunt artes), pacisque imponere morem,
parcere subiectis et debellare superbos»

"Others will hammer out more gently breathing bronzes, I believe so truly they will draw living expressions from marble, they will plead causes better and they will map with a compass the movements of the sky and will tell of rising stars: You, oh Roman, remember to rule the nations with authority (these will be your arts), and to impose a rule of peace, to spare the vanquished and to eradicate the arrogant ~ Virgil

Each man contains the entire pattern of the human condition. There ~ Michel De Montaigne

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Our ideas are transformed sensations. ~ Etienne Bonnot De Condillac

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. ~ Robert De Niro

The girl wondered: These policemen ... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable. ~ Michel De Montaigne

What stops them is that as soon as they give the word "end" its double meaning of goal and fulfillment they clearly perceive this ambiguity of their condition, which is the most fundamental of all: that every living movement is a sliding toward death. But if they are willing to look it in the face they also discover that every movement toward death is life. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted. ~ Honore De Balzac

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune. ~ Honore De Balzac

We need but little learning to live happily. ~ Michel De Montaigne

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude. ~ Thomas De Quincey

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside." ~ Anthony De Mello

Its particular interest for Ian, however, lay in its thesis about the history of the Dutch relationship to windmills, for it emphasized that these early industrial objects had originally been felt to have all the pylons' threateningly alien qualities, rather than the air of enchantment and playfulness now routinely associated with them. They had been denounced from pulpits and occasionally burnt to the ground by suspicious villagers. ~ Alain De Botton

It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Nocturnă

Uitarea venea... a venit.
O lacrimă cade jos, totul tace,
Lampa obosită a clipit,
Orice obiect atins şopteşte: lasă-mă-n pace...

De-acum...
Auzi, ploaia plânge pe drum
Pe un adânc tumult,
Pe urma unui mic pantof într-un parc
de demult...

Adorm... ascult...
Afară, la fereastră, toamna a spus:
- Of!

Nocturne

Oblivion comes . . . came.
A tear falls; total silence,
The tired lamp twinkles,
Every touched thing whispers, let me alone.

Now...
Listen, outside the rain sheds its tears ―
A serious dispute centers on
A scrap of a small shoe in an old park . . .

I sleep . . . I listen . . .
Outside a window, autumn says:
Oh! ~ George Bacovia

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

Once in a blue moon life will blow you a rarity and it will leave you with astonishment. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. ~ Michel De Montaigne

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. ~ Honore De Balzac

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions. ~ Luc De Clapiers

We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims. ~ Gijs De Vries

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. ~ Paul De Man

Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence. ~ Françoise De Graffigny

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget. ~ Madame De Stael

Fernando de Ismelda," Enrico says. "You won the kingdom's archery competition. I gather it was quite a surprise to everyone."
"Not to me," the boy says.
I decide that I like Fernando de Ismelda. ~ Rae Carson

Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

He frowned and tutted as he swabbed the vomit from the man's robes, and transferred his irritation to Pelagia's goat, which had entered the room and leapt up onto the table. 'Stupid brute' he shouted at it, and it looked at him impudently with its slotted eyes, as if to say, 'I, at least, am not drunk. I am merely mischievous. ~ Louis De Bernieres

Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride. ~ Arturo Perez Reverte