Barrado De Cortina Quotes

On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. ~ Alexandre Dumas

Cudjo meetee de people at de gate and tells dem, "You see de rattlesnake in de woods?" Dey say, "Yeah." I say "If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him? Same way wid my boys, you unnerstand me. If you leave my boys alone, dey not bother nobody! ~ Zora Neale Hurston

But the bottom line is, no matter what, even if I shoot 90 tomorrow, I'm going to enjoy it. Maybe people will say "Oh, he blew it" or whatever. Maybe I'm going to blow it, it's the first time I've ever been there. What do you expect? You know I'm not number one in the world. My knees are going to touch each other on the first tee tomorrow. But let me tell you, I'm going to enjoy it. ~ Jean Van De Velde

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ~ Charles De Secondat

The death of literature had been exaggerated. Whereas on dating websites, those who like books are usually bracketed into a single category, the broad selections on offer at WH Smith spoke to the diversity of individuals' motives for reading. If there was a conclusion to be drawn from the number of bloodstained covers, however, it was that there was a powerful desire, in a wide cross-section of airline passengers, to be terrified. ~ Alain De Botton

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think. ~ Edward De Bono

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. ~ Charles De Lint

I loved the idea that people dressed up to go to the gardens. Our work always has a utility point of view at its heartbeat and then other things come around it, so it really allowed us to use denims and suedes and gauzes, and those sorts of hard-working fabrics - workwear fabrics - and then contrast them with crepe de chine, beautiful florals and big jewelry. ~ Karen Walker

He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive. ~ Meg Cabot

We often hold on to someone who actually wants us to let go. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Life is mapped out by a series of choices and coincidences ... miracles and fate are figments of a dreamer's imagination. ~ Lisa De Jong

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions. ~ Honore De Balzac

Have you ever attempted to organize something like peace? The moment you do, you have power conflicts and group wars within the organization. The only way to have peace is to let it grow wild. ~ Anthony De Mello

Form often this good thought, that we are walking in this world between Paradise and Hell, and that our last step will place us in an eternal dwelling. We do not know which step will be our last, and so, in order to make our last step well, we must try to make all the others well.
O holy and unending eternity! Blessed is he who thinks of you. Yes, for what do we play here in this world but a children's game for who knows how many days? It would be nothing whatever, if it were not the passage to eternity.
On this account, therefore, we must pay attention to the time we have to dwell here below, and to all our occupations, so as to employ them in the conquest of the permanent good. ~ Francis De Sales

The character of Anglo-American civilization ... is the product ... of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war with each other, but which, in America, they have succeeded in incorporating somehow into one another and combining marvelously. I mean to speak of the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone. ~ Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. ~ Robert Gottlieb

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale. ~ Honore De Balzac

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering. ~ Denis De Rougemont

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten. ~ Charles De Lint

Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses. ~ Antonio Ermirio De Moraes

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. ~ Malcolm De Chazal

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. ~ Anthony De Mello

I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass? ~ Anthony De Mello

Maybe she's a gymnast with superior muscle control."
"She'd have to be in Cirque de Soleil to manage this. ~ Huntley Fitzpatrick

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back. ~ Mark Helprin

Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Surrender to the deepest level within that you're aware of. ~ John De Ruiter

Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it. ~ Alain De Botton

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes ~ Seth Godin

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. ~ Eduardo Souto De Moura

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream. ~ Daniel Boulud

I watched the young man as he articulated his ambition...A distant memory yet so familiar.. ~ Jose E. De Alvare

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. ~ Gijs De Vries

Not all kisses heal an open wound. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts.

The first is that our perceptions being every thing for us, we are
perfectly, completely, and necessarily sure of whatever we actually feel.

The second is that consequently none of our judgments, separately
taken, can be erroneous: inasmuch as we see one idea in another it is
actually there; but their falsity, when it takes place, is purely relative
to anterior judgments, which we permit to subsist; and it consists in
this, that we believe the idea in which we perceive a new element to
be the same as that we have always had under the same sign, when it
is really different, since the new element which we actually see there
is incompatible with some of those which we have previously seen;
so that to avoid contradiction we must either take away the former or
not admit the latter. ~ Antoine Destutt De Tracy

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else. ~ Don De Grazia

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly. ~ James De La Vega