De Baiting Quotes

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. ~ Marisha Pessl

Despite himself Paul was enchanted by the intoxicating loveliness of the night. It penetrated the terrible anguish he was feeling and stirred in his heart a fierce sense of irony. He longed with all his gentle and idealistic soul for a faithful woman to worship – someone in whose arms he could express all his love and tenderness as well as his passion. ~ Guy De Maupassant

I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press. ~ Theo De Raadt

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little. ~ Alain De Botton

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked what book he could give the Soviets to teach them about the advantages of American society, he pointed to the Sears catalogue. ~ Alain De Botton

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. ~ Joseph De Maistre

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

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me. ~ Alfred De Musset

It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften. ~ John De Ruiter

The most significant fact of political life, which almost no news organization will dare to acknowledge – because it would at a stroke exclude half of its speculations and disappointments – is that in some key areas of politics, nothing can be achieved very quickly by any one person or party; it would be impossible for anyone – not simply this fool or that group of cretins – to change matters at a pace that would flatter the expectations of the news cycle; and that in the case of certain problems, the only so-called 'solutions' will have to await a hundred years or more of incremental change, rather than a messianic leader, an international conference or a quick war. ~ Alain De Botton

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

If you say we are the same. Why do you then want to be treated differently and special ?

If you say you are different. Why do you want to change me to be like you ? ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

There are nights and days that you feel vulnerable, abused by life and delicate in heart but the fact that you feel like this does not make you weak....it only ensures that you are still functioning as you should....a conscience and a soul are among the most indispensable pieces of the machine... ~ Jose E. De Alvare

Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again. ~ Portia De Rossi

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others
existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things. ~ Honore De Balzac

For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus. ~ Therese De Lisieux

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

Nothing of what you go through in life gets lost. Everything teaches, refines and empowers you. ~ Maria Teresa De Donato

Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables ~ Melissa De La Cruz

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Shortly after her older brother died, Chloe (who had just celebrated her eighth birthday) went through a deeply philosophical stage. "I began to question everything," she told me, "I had to figure out what death was, that's enough to turn anyone into a philosopher." Chloe would put her hand over her eyes and tell the family her brother was still alive because she could see him in her mind just as well as she could see them. ~ Alain De Botton

Disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into the Italian, German, and Latin languages; and the doctrine it contain'd was by degrees universally adopted by the philosophers of Europe, in preference to that of the abbe; so that he lived to see himself the last of his sect, except Monsieur B
, of Paris, his eleve and immediate disciple. What gave my book the more sudden and general celebrity, was the success of one of its proposed experiments, made by Messrs. Dalibard and De Lor at Marly, for drawing ~ Benjamin Franklin

All confined things die. ~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been. ~ Charles De Lint

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. ~ Honore De Balzac