Betia De Cuvinte Quotes

The South, which is peopled with ardent and irascible beings, is becoming more irritated and alarmed. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. ~ Remy De Gourmont

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. ~ Alain De Botton

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. ~ Honore De Balzac

In everything we ought to look at the end. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle. ~ Charles De Lint

The apostle Paul often appears in Christian thought as the one chiefly responsible for the de-Judaization of the gospel and even for the transmutation of the person of Jesus from a rabbi in the Jewish sense to a divine being in the Greek sense. Such an interpretation of Paul became almost canonical in certain schools of biblical criticism during the nineteenth century, especially that of Ferdinand Christian Baur, who saw the controversy between Paul and Peter as a conflict between the party of Peter, with its 'Judaizing' distortion of the gospel into a new law, and the party of Paul, with its universal vision of the gospel as a message about Jesus for all humanity. Very often, of course, this description of the opposition between Peter and Paul and between law and gospel was cast in the language of the opposition between Roman Catholicism (which traced its succession to Peter as the first pope) and Protestantism (which arose from Luther's interpretation of the epistles of Paul). Luther's favorite among those epistles, the letter to the Romans, became the charter for this supposed declaration of independence from Judaism. ~ Jaroslav Pelikan

Washington had several surrogate sons during the Revolution, most notably the marquis de Lafayette, and he often referred to Hamilton as my boy. ~ Ron Chernow

A difficult young man, they had been told, thought John Erskine. How difficult he could not have dreamed; nor could James, standing silent beside him. Then James said, 'A brilliant rogue. We do better without him.'

'Perhaps,' said the other man thoughtfully. 'Indeed, he blocked every sally but one. Until you told him, he did not know his brother was a Calvinist.'

'So? You heard him,' said James.

'Ah, yes. I heard what he said,' answered Erskine. 'But I rather think the interest will lie in what the comte de Sevigny does. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

Be who you are and be that well. ~ Francis De Sales

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight. ~ Steve Martin

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her. ~ Honore De Balzac

The only way to defend language is to attack it ... ' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression, broken a range of rules laid down by previous writers. ~ Alain De Botton

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved. ~ Marie De France

Olympism ... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

Holy Scripture is in such sort the rule of the Christian faith that we are obliged by every kind of obligation to believe most exactly all that it contains and not to believe anything which may be ever so little contrary to it, for if Our Lord himself has sent the Jews to it894 to strengthen their faith, it must be a most safe standard. The Sadducees erred because they did not understand the Scriptures;895 they would have done better to attend to them, as to a light shin ing in a dark place, according to the advice of S. Peter,896 who having himself heard the voice of the Father in the transfiguration of the Son, bases himself more firmly on the testimony of the prophets than on this experience. ~ Francis De Sales

If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you. ~ Olivia De Havilland

If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? ... ~ Saint Francis De Sales

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Assuredly the turquoise doth possess a soul more intelligent than that of man. ~ Anselmus De Boodt

Old age is a woman's hell. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure. ~ Alan Bradley

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny. Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as a man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues? ~ Leticia Van De Putte

I'm really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul. ~ J. R. Celski

Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse. ~ Joe Bastianich

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters. ~ Vincent De Paul

I am alone all day, I read a little but it gives me a headache. I draw and I paint, as much as I can, so much so that my hand gets tired and when it begins to get dark I wait to see if Jeanne d'Armagnac [one of the cousins] will come and sit by my bed. She comes sometimes and tries to distract me and play with me, and I listen to her speak without daring to look at her, she is so tall and so beautiful! And I am neither tall nor beautiful. ~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. ~ Alain De Botton

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld