Congres De Vienne Quotes

You can do anything you like with bayonets, except sit on them. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago. ~ Frans De Waal

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy! ~ Honore De Balzac

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature cannot lead me to consciousness. It is blind. But when I wake up and I feel that I belong to a higher world, this is only part of conscious effort. I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower. There is value only in conscious effort. ~ Jeanne De Salzmann

Arbre toujours au milieu
De tout ce qui l'entoure
Arbre qui savoure
La voute des cieux

(Tree always in the center
Of all that surrounds it
Tree feasting upon
Heaven's great dome) ~ Gaston Bachelard

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

All lives are difficult; what makes some of them fulfilled as well is the manner in which pains have been met. Every pain is an indistinct signal that something is wrong, which may engender either a good or bad result depending on the sagacity and strength of mind of the sufferer. Anxiety may precipitate panic, or an accurate analysis of what is amiss. A sense of injustice may lead to murder, or to a ground-breaking work of economic theory. Envy may lead to bitterness, or to a decision to compete with a rival and the production of a masterpiece. As ~ Alain De Botton

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors ... ~ Miguel De Icaza

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes. ~ Paul De Kruif

So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack ~ Melissa De La Cruz

The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence. ~ Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. ~ Michel De Montaigne

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

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet. ~ Honore De Balzac

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

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative. ~ Frans De Waal

Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die ~ Herman Melville

Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time. ~ Louis De Bernieres

My parents kept me very grounded. ~ Danielle De Niese

If you couldn't help harboring higher aspirations in life, you should at least harbor only simple desires, reduced in passion and ambition, as if you had been de-generized and now had only enough strength to be average. ~ Elif Shafak

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. ~ Gloria Swanson

There was a curious sense of apprehension in her heart. He was certainly very handsome. It would be thrilling to be the wife of the Governor of Bengal and very nice to be grand and have the ADCs [Aide de Camps] running about to do one's bidding ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Bad & good memories can give us an immediate producing mind-switch of WHAT & WHO we are today ~ Rhodolith De-irio Cuambot

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops. ~ Oscar De La Renta

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again. ~ Charles De Lint

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic ... the term "mores" ... meaning ... habits of the heart. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

We have known for a long time that the pantheon of science is decorated with failure. Failures are the moving force in science: they seal off one possibility in order to expose another; they force us to look at the problem in a new light. We owe a huge debt, therefore, to the researchers whose life's work leads to a cal-de-sac. They are indirectly showing us the correct path. ~ Joseph Jebelli

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject. ~ Honore De Balzac

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough ... ~ Edward De Bono

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue. ~ John Mackey

No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

De Tocqueville says it comes from taking some "incomplete joy of this world" and building your entire life on it. That is the definition of idolatry. ~ Timothy Keller

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. ~ Jean De La Bruyere