Cantar De Mio Quotes

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

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ... ~ Walter De La Mare

I can't tell you how I felt when my father died. But I was able to write Song of Solomon and imagine, not him, and not his specific interior life, but the world that he inhabited and the private or interior life of the people in it. And I can't tell you how I felt reading to my grandmother while she was turning over and over in her bed (because she was dying, and she was not comfortable), but I could try to reconstruct the world that she lived in. And I have suspected, more often than not, that I know more than she did, that I know more than my grandfather and my great-grandmother did, but I also know that I'm no wiser than they were. And whenever I have tried earnestly to diminish their vision and prove to myself that I know more, and when I have tried to speculate on their interior life and match it up with my own, I have been overwhelmed every time by the richness of theirs compared to my own. Like Frederick Douglass talking about his grandmother, and James Baldwin talking about his father, and Simone de Beauvoir talking about her mother, these people are my access to me; they are my entrance into my own interior life. Which is why the images that float around them--the remains, so to speak, at hte archeological site--surface first, and they surface so vividly and so compellingly that I acknowledge them as my route to a reconstruction of a world, to an exploration of an interior life that was not written and to the revelation of a kind of truth. ~ Toni Morrison

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope. ~ Alain De Botton

When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education ... the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint ... It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold ... they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism. ~ Alain De Botton

She had to be honest. And this was where the truth hurt. She wanted to see Jack Force again. But it was agony ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we date to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable. ~ Alain De Botton

Your deeper sense isn't a springboard; it's a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you'll establish your self where it doesn't belong. The fine line between the two is in your own deeper sense. It is in your actual knowing within that deeper sense. ~ John De Ruiter

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman. ~ Honore De Balzac

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. ~ Jaime Gil De Biedma

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Deepak Chopra: 'Every child has played hide-and-seek. And you know when you play hide-and-seek, there is a part of you that doesn't want to be found out and there is another part of you that wants to be found. So we lose oursleves and ultimately we find ourselves. That's the play of life.'

In a way you spend your whole life playing hide-and-seek- On the one hand, you hope not to be found, because you are comfortable with the personality you've assumed. On the other hand, you want to be found, because, deep down, your personality chafes against your true self. To resolved this discrepancy, align your personality with you soul. ~ Baptist De Pape

Each of them was better together than either of them could have been apart. ~ Louis De Bernieres

For this present child of my brain, what I give it I give unconditionally and irrevocably, just as one does to the children of one's body; such little good as I have already done it is no longer mine to dispose of; it may know plenty of things which I know no longer, and remember things about me that I have forgotten; if the need arose to turn to it for help, it would be like borrowing from a stranger. It is richer than I am, yet I am wiser than it. Few devotees of poetry would not have ~ Michel De Montaigne

Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity. ~ Edouard Rene De Laboulaye

Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
[Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.] ~ Jean De La Bruyere

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Put black on white. ~ Guy De Maupassant

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

There are really only two standards of appellate review: plenary and deferential. Conventionally there are four basic standards (with many variants), which in ascending order of deference to the trial court or administrative agency are de novo, clearly erroneous, substantial evidence, and abuse of discretion. But the last three are, in practice, the same, because finer distinctions are beyond judges' cognitive capacity. The multiplication of unusual distinctions is a familiar judicial pathology. ~ Richard A. Posner

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it. ~ Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

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