Benedicte De Montlaur Quotes

I once read a very funny piece called "The Essential Gone with the Wind" that went something like this: " 'A war?' laughed Scarlett. 'Oh, fiddle-de-dee!' "Boom! Ashley went to war! Atlanta burned! Rhett walked in and then walked out! " 'Fiddle-de-dee,' said Scarlett through her tears, 'I will think about it tomorrow, for tomorrow is another day.' " I ~ Stephen King

All that is to last is slow to grow. ~ Louis De Bonald

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously. ~ Michael De Luca

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I am life, I am strength, I am woman. ~ Julia De Burgos

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle. ~ Honore De Balzac

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Life was full of lost worlds. You could travel miles of twisting roads and think you're far away from all you know and suddenly stumble on the scrap of one. ~ Carolina De Robertis

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right? ~ Matt Damon

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We worked so hard," [Joan Blondell] said, "and hardly ever had a day off ... Saturday was a working day and we usually worked right into Sunday morning." Joan's good nature may have worked against her in the long run. While fellow Warner Brothers workers Bette Davis, James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Humphrey Bogart fought like lions for better roles and more creative input, Joan took things in stride, at least through the early 1930s. "I just sailed through things, took the scripts I was given, did what I was told. I couldn't afford to go on suspension - my family needed what I could make. ~ Eve Golden

Make a conscious decision, no matter what it is, and know that that choice will have consequences. ~ Eddie De Jong

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I grew up in the United States. ~ Dominique De Villepin

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

Sometimes, she said, she could recognize a place just by the quality of the light. In Lisbon, the light at the end of spring leans madly over the houses, white and humid, and just a little bit salty. In Rio de Janeiro, in the season that the locals instinctively call 'autumn', and that the Europeans insist disdainfully is just a figment of their imagination, the light becomes gentler, like a shimmer of silk, sometimes accompanied by a humid grayness, which hangs over the streets, and then sinks down gently into the squares and gardens. In the drenched land of the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, really early in the morning, the blue parrots cross the sky and they shake a clear, slow light from their wings, a light that little by little settles on the waters, grows and spreads and seems to sing. In the forests of Taman Negara in Malaysia, the light is like a liquid, which sticks to your skin, and has a taste and a smell. It's noisy in Goa, and harsh. In Berlin the sun is always laughing, at least during those moments when it manages to break through the clouds, like in those ecological stickers against nuclear power. Even in the most unlikely skies, Ângela Lúcia is able to discern shines that mustn't be forgotten; until she visited Scandinavia she'd believed that in that part of the world during the winter months light was nothing but the figment of people's imagination. But no, the clouds would occasionally light up with great flashes of hope. She said this, and stood up, adopting a ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself. ~ Madame De Stael

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. ~ Marquis De Sade

Happiness has no history and the story tellers of all lands have understood this so well that the words "they are happy" are the end pf every love tale. ~ Honore De Balzac

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more. ~ Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

Persinette, let down your hair. ~ Charlotte-Rose De Caumont De La Force

That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain unknown to others, wants us even less to be held in honour and glory by them. He also advised Idomeneus in no wise to govern his actions by reputation or by common opinion, except to avoid such incidental disadvantages as the contempt of men might bring him.10 Those words are infinitely true, in my opinion, and are reasonable. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light. ~ Honore De Balzac

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. ~ Michel De Montaigne

There had been over four thousand Jewish children penned in the Vel' d'Hiv', aged between two and twelve. Most of the children were French, born in France. None of them came back from Auschwitz. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

The conclusion that the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom were acquainted with both the Fibonacci series and the Golden Section, says Stecchini, is so startling in relation to current assumptions about the level of Egyptian mathematics that it could hardly have been accepted on the basis of Herodotus' statement alone, or on the fact that the phi [golden] proportion happens to be incorporated in the Great Pyramid.

But the many measurements made by Professor Jean Philippe Lauer, says Stecchini, definitely prove the occurrence of the Golden Section throughout the architecture of the Old Kingdom.... Schwaller de Lubicz also found graphic evidence that the pharonic Egyptians had worked out a direct relation between pi and phi in that pi = phi^2 x 6/5. ~ Peter Tompkins

The world is so round, friendship may encircle it. ~ Peirre Teilhard De Chardin

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything. ~ Charles De Lint

The pursuit of the impossible through the useless. ~ Gabriel De Tarde

Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw that as merely the fighting spirit of an ambitious and confident leader. Yet, wasn't that what appealed most to her about him? A spirit and impetuousness that could match her own and challenge her to be better herself in this new democracy? A man who could honor her own values? ~ Melissa De La Cruz

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin