Cautam De Lucru Quotes

[Inspector Harding] " ... To start with, I know that the General didn't get on with his son, but seemed to prefer his nephew; I know that he disapproved violently of Miss de Silva, and behaved towards her with unparalleled cruelty."
"How much?" interrupted Dinah.
Harding replied with perfect gravity: "No absinthe, no shower in her bathroom ... "
"Did she tell you all that?" said Dinah. "Don't you think she's rather good value?"
"Yes, but she wastes my time. ~ Georgette Heyer

One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared. ~ Sandra Cisneros

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light. ~ Christine De Pizan

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window. ~ Matthew Rhys

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone. ~ R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever – even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body. ~ Walter De La Mare

Men do not change. They unmask themselves. ~ Germaine De Stael

So much din from so many philosophical brainboxes! Trust in your philosophy now! Boast that you are the one who has found the lucky bean in your festive pudding! ~ Michel De Montaigne

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand. If the weather had been mild, you would have loitered along the watercourses, but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward and wrapped around you the warm robe of Saviour's righteousness. ~ Thomas De Witt Talmage

Power should be a check on power. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. ~ Lope De Vega

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. ~ Alain De Botton

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home. ~ Anthony De Mello S.J.

But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action. And seeing the eldest of them lost in a reverie that pained us, we added that perhaps the only truth is the peace to be found in books ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre? ~ Michel De Montaigne

What is more immoral than war? ~ Marquis De Sade

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. ~ Marie De France

The more you embrace joy, the less room there is for fear. ~ Rikki De La Vega

Joie de vivre. Joy and life together. It's such an ironically perfect description of you. ~ Rosamund Lupton

I was x years old in the year x2. ~ Augustus De Morgan

Plain words on plain paper. Remember what Orwell says, that good prose is like a windowpane. Cut every page you write by at least a third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what you want to say. Then say it in the most direct and vigorous way you can. Eat meat. Drink blood. Give up your social life and don't think you can have friends. Rise in the quiet hours of the night and prick your fingertips and use the blood for ink; that will cure you of persiflage! But do I take my own advice? Not a bit. Persiflage is my nom de guerre. (Don't use foreign expressions. It's elitist.) ~ Hilary Mantel

Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up. ~ Thomas De Maiziere

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The widow employed her woman's malice to devise a system of covert persecution. ~ Honore De Balzac

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book. ~ John De Mol, Jr.

Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy. ~ Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past. ~ Henry Rollins

Pearls.
Take, like an oyster,
your irritations, your pain.
Use these to create your masterpiece. ~ Jessica De La Davies

Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest. ~ Francis De Sales

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God ... ~ Thomas De Quincey

Death makes us all equal ... ~ Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct. ~ Honore De Balzac

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself. ~ Robert De Niro

«Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera
(credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus,
orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus
describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent:
tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
(hae tibi erunt artes), pacisque imponere morem,
parcere subiectis et debellare superbos»

"Others will hammer out more gently breathing bronzes, I believe so truly they will draw living expressions from marble, they will plead causes better and they will map with a compass the movements of the sky and will tell of rising stars: You, oh Roman, remember to rule the nations with authority (these will be your arts), and to impose a rule of peace, to spare the vanquished and to eradicate the arrogant ~ Virgil

The little girl's sense of secrecy that developed at prepuberty only grows in importance. She closes herself up in fierce solitude: she refuses to reveal to those around her the hidden self that she considers to be her real self and that is in fact an imaginary character: she plays at being a dancer like Tolstoy's Natasha, or a saint like Marie Leneru, or simply the singular wonder that is herself. There is still an enormous difference between this heroine and the objective face that her parents and friends recognise in her. She is also convinced that she is misunderstood: her relationship with herself becomes even more passionate: she becomes intoxicated with her isolation, feels different, superior, exceptional: she promises that the future will take revenge on the mediocrity of her present life. From this narrow and petty existence she escapes by dreams. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. ~ Charles De Montesquieu

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. ~ Louis De Bernieres

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument. ~ Honore De Balzac

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life. ~ Vincent De Paul

I got some of their jabber out of a book. S'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy - what would you think?" "I wouldn' think nuffn; I'd take en bust him over de head - dat ~ Mark Twain

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible. ~ Christine De Pizan

Aristotle's scala naturae, which runs from God, the angels, and humans at the top, downward to other mammals, birds, fish, insects, and mollusks at the bottom. ~ Frans De Waal

If laws and principles were fixed and invariable, nations would not change them as readily as we change our shirts. ~ Honore De Balzac