Buarque De Hollanda Quotes

De Tocqueville admired the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object to the exertions of a great many men, and in getting them voluntarily to pursue it. ~ Ron Paul

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils. ~ Honore De Balzac

Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities. ~ Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

De Selby likens the position of a human on the earth to that of a man on a tight-wire who must continue walking along the wire or perish, being, however, free in all other respects. Movement in this restricted orbit results in the permanent hallucination known conventionally as 'life' with its innumerable concomitant limitations, afflictions and anomalies. ~ Flann O'Brien

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Alice loved in order to make up for her own insufficiencies, she searched in others for qualities she aspired to, respected but lacked. Her emotional needs were like a puzzle incomplete without a segment brought by another but the dimensions of the void altered in response to self-development, the piece which fitted at fifteen would no longer fit at thirty. The gap redrew its contours, and unless the puzzle-person kept up she would be left to divorce or awkwardly force the issue. ~ Alain De Botton

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today. ~ Fernando De Rojas

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin? ~ Juana Ines De La Cruz

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other. ~ Michel De Montaigne

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them. ~ Giada De Laurentiis

And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected. ~ Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Therefore, as St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, asserts, the archangel Gabriel called her full of grace: "Ave gratia plena;" because whilst to others, as the saint above mentioned remarks, limited grace is given, to Mary it was given in fulness. And thus it was ordered, as St. Basil attests, that in this way she might become the worthy mediatrix between God and men. For if the Virgin had not been full of divine grace, as St. Lawrence Justinian adds, how could she be the ladder of paradise, the advocate of the world, and the true mediatrix between God and men? ~ Alfonso Maria De Liguori

350. - Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. ~ Robert De Niro

L'attesa é lunga,
Il mio sogno de ti non é finito

(The wait is long,
My dream of you is not ended) ~ Eugenio Montale

I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think ... of any man as damned ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." (Jace) ~ Cassandra Clare

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and 'tis Injustice to infringe her Laws. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Am fully convinced that it is impossible for a woman, even if she were born close to a throne, to acquire before the age of five-and-twenty the encyclopaedic knowledge of trifles, the practice of manoeuvring, the important small things, the musical tones and harmony of coloring, the angelic bedevilments and innocent cunning, the speech and the silence, the seriousness and the banter, the wit and the obtuseness, the diplomacy and the ignorance which make up the perfect lady. ~ Honore De Balzac

I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air. ~ Cyrano De Bergerac

When you find someone you truly love, nothing else matters. ~ Lisa De Jong

Although it often struggles to be heard in respectable circles, there is an alternative to the Christian-Romantic tenet that sex and love should always be inseparable. The libertine position denies any inherent or logical link between loving someone and needing to be unfailingly sexually loyal to them. It proposes that it can be entirely natural and even healthy for partners in a couple occasionally to have sex with strangers for whom they have little feeling but to whom they nonetheless feel strongly attracted. Sex doesn't always have to be bound up with love. It can sometimes – this philosophy holds – be a purely physical, aerobic activity engaged in without substantive emotional meaning. It is, so its adherents conclude, just as absurd to suppose that one should only ever have sex with the person one loves as it would be to require that only those in committed couples ever be permitted to play table tennis or go jogging together. ~ Alain De Botton

Gratitude opens you heart to receive more goodness. Then you give thanks and are blessed again. It's an endless cycle. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are. ~ Philip Roth

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. ~ Honore De Balzac

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. ~ Michel De Montaigne

When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great. ~ Jessica De Gouw

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. ~ Augustus De Morgan

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
[Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.] ~ Plutarch

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

All human efforts to communicate - even in the same language - are equally utopian, equally luminous with value, and equally worth the doing. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. ~ Honore De Balzac

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ~ Marquis De Sade

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. ~ Madame De Stael

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. ~ Madeleine De Scudery