Cipreste De Leyland Quotes

You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun. ~ Julia De Burgos

Body can't contain the inside hurricane. (Corps ne peut contenir - L'ouragan intérieur) ~ Charles De Leusse

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

...if I had not been able to come out of the operation alive, he would change his name to mine and continue living my life for me. ~ Qiao Yi

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but good reasons for supposing that there is no God at all. From this perspective, from what Unamuno called the 'tragic sense of life', from this despair, faith comes to the rescue, not only as something nonrational but in a sense irrational. For Unamuno the great symbol of a person of faith was his Spanish hero Don Quixote. Faith is indeed quixotic. It is absurd. Let us admit it. Let us concede to everything! To a rational mind the world looks like a world without God. It looks like a world with no hope for another life. To think otherwise, to believe in spite of appearances, is surely a kind of madness. The atheist sees clearly that windmills are in fact only windmills, that Dulcinea is just a poor country bumpkin with a homely face and an unpleasant smell. The atheist is a Sarah, justifiably laughing in her old age at Abraham's belief that God will give them a son.

What can be said in reply? How can a fideist admit that faith is a kind of madness, a dream fed by passionate desire, and yet maintain that one is not mad to make the leap? ~ Martin Gardner

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. ~ Eamon De Valera

They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn't exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn't want to check into CrazyTown any time soon. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious. ~ Michel De Montaigne

You Are All The Ones You Have Been Waiting For ~ Pietro De La Luna

Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents. ~ Olympe De Gouges

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Says, he who humbleth himself shall be exalted. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, ... a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion. ~ Frans De Waal

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. ~ Honore De Balzac

Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

You're not a man, you're a mushroom! ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race.
Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds, false theology, superstition, bigotry, ignorance, monopolies, aristocracies, privileged classes, tyranny, oppression, and everything that degrades or burdens mankind mentally or physically. ~ De Robigne Mortimer Bennett

And what does it matter whether God speaks to us from amongst the thorns or the flowers? ~ Francis De Sales

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. ~ Gavin De Becker

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality ~ Michel De Montaigne

I'm afraid to move for fear of getting some of the world on me. ~ Sergio De La Pava

A letter is the portrait of the soul ... ~ Josephine De Beauharnais

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left. ~ Christian De Duve

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on. ~ Oscar De La Renta

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

I'm always telling Don King's people when there's a top-10 heavyweight they've got that needs an opponent, I'm ready. ~ Mark De Mori

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. ~ Alain De Botton

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality ~ Gilles Deleuze

Nijinsky in 'Le Spectre de la rose' was like nothing I'd seen before. He danced a fifteen-minute solo and it passed like a dream. He was wearing a silk tricot, palest nude, onto which were pinned dozens of silk Bakst petals, pink and red and purple. The most exotic creature, so beautiful, like a shiny, graceful insect on the verge of flight. He leapt as if it cost him no effort, lingering in the air far longer than was possible, and seemed not to touch the stage between times. I believed that night that a man might fly, that anything was possible. ~ Kate Morton

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

To have time for it, I left off prayer which was to me the first inlet of evils. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Eugenie De Guerin

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin