De Bromhead Ring Quotes

Life is never what it seems - and that's the great thing about it ~ Ines De La Fressange

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to. ~ Alexis De Veaux

Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever! ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of storytelling, wearing us out with repetition, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines. It insists on showing us Bardak Electronics, the saftey handle in the car, a stray dog, a Christmas card and a fly that lands first on the rim and then in the centre of the ashtray.
Which explains how the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting wooliness of the present. ~ Alain De Botton

Faith is, before all and above all, wishing God may exist. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for. ~ Sebastien De Castell

If you understand the system you can design appropriate action. ~ Edward De Bono

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. ~ Alain De Botton

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. ~ Giada De Laurentiis

Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole. ~ Edward De Bono

Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a romantic one; they looked to architecture to support a way of life that appealed to them. Their domestic buildings were conceived as stage sets for actors in an idealised drama about contemporary existence. ~ Alain De Botton

His mama named him Head?" Talon snorted derisively. "Damn, that's cold. And here I thought this Cabeza had it bad."
"It was a nickname. His real name was Kukulcan Verastegui."
The Cabeza in front of her broke off into a fierce round of what sounded like Mayan cursing. She had no idea what he was saying, but it was raw and explosive as he gestured furiously to punctuate his tirade.
She turned her frown to Talon. "What's he saying?"
Talon shrugged. "I'm from Britain, not Mexico. No idea."
"That pendejo is not me." Cabeza broke off into a mixture of Mayan and Spanish and then returned to English, but this time his accent was much thicker and he rolled his Rs viciously. "His name, for the record, is Chacu. Ese cabrón hijo de la gran puta, pretending to be me. I should have cut his throat for my Act of Vengeance!"
"The real question is, did you cut his throat today?"
Hands on hips, Cabeza glared at Talon for asking such a thing. "No. He got away, along with the … what's the word? Uh … Pigeon crap?"
"Chicken shit?" Talon offered.
"Si!… that was with him. They vanished before I could kill them. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I do not want you to believe any of this because it is all crap, but it is the crap in which the piles of our psuedo-European culture are embedded, so you had better understand it because no one who does not understand the history and taxonomy of crap will ever come to know the difference between crap and pseudocrap and noncrap ... ~ Louis De Bernieres

Ever since I've been boxing, it's always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can't explain why or how. ~ Oscar De La Hoya

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum ~ Thomas A Kempis

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme. ~ Eamon De Valera

How is it possible that things so trivial and so easy to remedy can have the power to perplex and absorb an intelligence as mature as yours, and one so ready to demolish and pass over much greater difficulties? ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. ~ Michel De Montaigne

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower! ~ Anderson Luis De Abreu Oliveira

One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done. ~ Antonio Ermirio De Moraes

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace ~ Marquis De Sade

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure. ~ Anthony De Jasay

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring ~ Vincent De Paul

You're a ring-wearing, save-yourself-for-marriage kind of girl. I dig that. ~ E.C. Newman

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts. ~ Honore De Balzac

A bad attitude is like moths, it will eat everything good you have in your life. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history. ~ Marianne Vos

The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will? ~ Alan De Jager

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. ~ Joseph De Maistre

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects
not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues. ~ Therese De Lisieux

I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better. ~ Melissa De Sousa

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others. ~ Marquis De Sade