Cantique De Zacharie Quotes

...the habitants, dressed in their brightest colors and wearing their shoes, lined the Route de Rivière, waving and shouting, "Bon jour, Monsieur Reneau. Congratulations on your marriage." Once he passed however, they whispered to each other. "Poor Monsieur Reneau. Certainly he is a fertile man, two wives, sixteen daughters, yet no son."
"The Reneau seed is cursed," some surmised but others held out hope for their Seigneur. "Perhaps this third wife will give him a healthy boy, eh?"
Zacharie, third Lord of Paradise.
The Last Lord of Paradise––Generation Three ~ Vivian LeMay

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There's something wrong inside of me," she said. "I don't know at it is. It feels big and heavy and sometimes it makes it hard to breathe." She lifted her hands eyes. "And tears keep leaking out of my eyes. Is this what sadness feels like?" "That's what it feels like for me." I replied. "It's funny. I've heard about it in a lot of the stories I've collected, but I never knew it felt like this before." She sighed "it's so heavy......"
"I know." I replied "I know. ~ Charles De Lint

You know ... my flower ... I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. ~ Arie De Geus

Life has made me discover the world as it is, that is, a world of suffering and oppression, of undernourishment for the majority of people, things that I didn't know when I was young and when I imagined that to discover the world was to discover something beautiful. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's". ~ Michel De Montaigne

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The Android, as we've said, is only the first hours of Love, immobilized, the hour of the ideal made eternal prisoner ~ Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

That's the problem - our lives have stopped and the world keeps going round. ~ Delphine De Vigan

Augustine's final verdict on the philosophers of Greece
and Rome was that, although they had made various mistakes, "nature itself has not permitted them to wander too far from the path of truth" in their judgments about the supreme good (De Civitate Dei 19.1). ~ Alasdair MacIntyre

I moved to Chicago in 1992 to study improv and it was everything I wanted it to be. It was like a cult. People ate, slept, and definitely drank improv. They worked at crappy day jobs just to hand over their money for improv classes. Eager young people in khakis and polo shirts were willing to do whatever teachers like Del Close and Martin de Maat told them to. In retrospect, it may actually have been a cult. ~ Tina Fey

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

One fine day, someone will help you find, what you have lost inside of you awhile ago. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions! ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Everything can be simplified. With enough simplification and enough patience on the part of the parent, anything can be simplified to the point that even very young children can begin to understand it. ~ Edward De Bono

I feel that when people hire me they know it's going to be a collaboration and that they hire me for what I give on all sorts of levels, from my movement to the emotion I bring to the project, the passion, all of it. ~ Paz De La Huerta

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. ~ Louis De Bernieres

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex']
Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions - even when they worship a goddess - as the inventions of men to perpetuate their dominion. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living. ~ Raymond Blanc

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy. ~ Barbara De Angelis

The place reeked of vice and corruption and the dregs of Parisian society in all its rottenness gathered there: cheats, conmen and cheap hacks rubbed shoulders with under-age dandies, old roués and rogues, sleazy underworld types once notorious for things best forgotten mingled with other small-time crooks and speculators, dabblers in dubious ventures, frauds, pimps, and racketeers. Cheap sex, both male and female, was on offer in this tawdry meat-market of a place where petty rivalries were exploited, and quarrels picked over nothing in an atmosphere of fake gallantry where swords or pistols at dawn settled matters of highly questionable honour in the first place. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet ~ Frans De Waal

But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully in the presence of God, manifesting our needs to Him with no other mental effort, like a poor person who uncovers his sores and by this means is more effective in inciting passers-by to do him some good than if he wore himself out trying to convince them of his need. ~ Vincent De Paul

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it. ~ Edward De Bono

Again, let's pay all due respect to De Palma and put him over here so we're not saying, "Mine's deeper, mine's better." Let's just say, in reading the book, what I fell in love with was this mother-daughter story that was so amazing and so profound. ~ Kimberly Peirce

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator. ~ Alain De Botton

I suffer, therefore I am special. I am not understood, but for precisely that reason, I am worthy of greater understanding. 13. ~ Alain De Botton

To reach satisfaction in all, desire satisfaction in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all, desire to be nothing. To come to the knowledge of all, desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to enjoy what you have not, you must go by a way in which you enjoy not. To come to the possession you have not, you must go by a way in which you possess not. To come to what you are not, you must go by a way in which you are not.
John of the Cross ~ San Juan De La Cruz

What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through. ~ Voltairine De Cleyre

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Never, never have I been loved as I love others! ~ Madame De Stael

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The traveler who crosses a mountain in the direction of a star runs the risk of forgetting which is his guiding star if he concentrates too exclusively on the climbing problems. If he only acts for action's sake, he will get nowhere. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need - but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need - within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. ~ Alain De Botton

Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it ... if they corrupt the morals of the people, spread a taste for luxury, effeminacy, a rage for licentious pleasures, - if they stimulate the higher orders to a ruinous pomp and extravagance, - beware, citizens! beware of those corruptors! they only aim at purchasing slaves in order to exercise over them an arbitrary sway. ~ Emer De Vattel

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's called the Way of Water, Dexan. You tried to kill me, so now I get to keep your hat. - Kellen ~ Sebastien De Castell