Belgrano De Cordoba Quotes

Today the word "hope" had grown meaningless. Today we were tramping simply because we were tramping. Probably oxen work for the same reason. Yesterday I had dreamed of a paradise of orange-trees. Today I would not give a button for paradise; I did not believe oranges existed. When I thought about myself I found in me nothing but a heart squeezed dry. I was tottering but emotionless. I felt no distress whatever, and in a way I regretted it: misery would have seemed to me as sweet as water. I might then have felt sorry for myself and commiserated with myself as with a friend. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Life cannot go on without much forgetting. ~ Honore De Balzac

There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Alexander the Great was not worried about what other people would think if he made a deal with a woman. It helped that the woman was very smart and knew how to benefit both sides by striking that deal. Ada of Caria negotiated with the Macedonian conqueror by making him her adoptive son and her heir. She got her power back and ruled for a total of nineteen years. ~ Ingrid De Haas

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

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly. ~ Charles De Gaulle

God is a sadist on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, and His name is Physics. ~ Peter Watts

I vibrate with cheer and delight in my cells. I let beauty heal me! ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. ~ Christopher Hitchens

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility. ~ Miguel De Molinos

I was a mass of doubts now. I believed in nothing, not even in my own obsession. I walked through the ruins of life, even fearing, in my more lucid moments, that I might go mad. ~ Mario De Sa-Carneiro

The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance. ~ Alain De Botton

It is the privilege and charm of beauty to win the heart and secure good-will, ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman. ~ Remy De Gourmont

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution. ~ Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and the humblest rookie in your regiment. Whether you go and do wee-wee at the Countess Cack's or cack at the Baroness Wee-wee's, it's exactly the same, you will have compromised your reputation and have used a shitty rag instead of toilet paper. Which is unsavoury. ~ Marcel Proust

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ~ Peter De Vries

You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name."
I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading.
Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do. ~ Oscar De La Renta

Elephant altruism on the Kenyan plains. With her tusks, Grace (right) lifted the fallen three-ton Eleanor to her feet, then tried to get her to walk by pushing her. But Eleanor fell again and eventually died, leaving Grace vocalizing with streaming temporal glands - a sign of deep distress. Being matriarchs of different herds, these two elephants were likely unrelated. ~ Frans De Waal

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Habit is second nature. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness. ~ Honore De Balzac

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you. ~ Melissa De La Cruz