Disfraz De Pirata Quotes

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place. ~ Charles De Lint

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Does what is praised becomes better? Does an emerald become worse if it isn't praised? And what a gold, ivory, a flower or a little plant? ~ Alain De Botton

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

If a traveller was to feel personally involved with (rather than guiltily obedient towards) 'the walls and ceilings of the church decorated with nineteenth-century frescoes and paintings ... ', he or she would have to be able to connect these facts
as boring as a fly
with one of the large, blunt questions to which genuine curiosity must be anchored. ~ Alain De Botton

Kate tracked Barnes down to the potting shed, where he was planting up some seedlings into clay pots. He looked up as Kate entered and gave her a slow half smile once he knew she was unaccompanied.
"So you can't leave me alone, Miss? Must be my devastating charm. I'm not so sure it's safe for you to be alone in the potting shed with me though. ~ Rachel De Vine

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The bonobo would first of all urge the atheist to stop "sleeping furiously." There is no point getting all worked up about the absence of something, especially something as open to interpretation as God. ~ Frans De Waal

God reveals himself unfailingly to the thoughtful seeker. ~ Honore De Balzac

At first, I was shocked that Diane could even suggest this family reunion [on television], and then I realized this is just the way of the world, or at least the way of fin de siecle America. Not only would the next revolution be televised, but so would every other little stupid thing. It was already happening: Television reunions between adopted children and their birth parents ... ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios. ~ Olivia De Havilland

Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic. ~ Jane Frances De Chantal

Be More Than Just Consequences of Your Past ~ Philippe De Woot

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there. ~ Stacey D'Erasmo

Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality. ~ Michael Azerrad

Deep down, he's shallow. ~ Peter De Vries

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. ~ Frans De Waal

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts. ~ Lance Armstrong

In a democracy private citizens see a man of their own rank in life who becomes possessed of riches and power in a few years; this spectacle excites their surprise and envy, and they are led to inquire how the person who was yesterday very equal is today their ruler. To attribute his rise to his talents or his virtues is unpleasant; for it is tacitly to acknowledge that they are themselves less virtuous and less talented than he was. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK? ~ Oscar De La Renta

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom. ~ Charles De Lint

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. ~ Maximilien De Robespierre

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later. ~ Marquis De Sade

Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution. ~ Staffan De Mistura

Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it. ~ Christian De Duve

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire. ~ Honore De Balzac

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ~ Barbara De Angelis

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer. ~ Barbara De Angelis

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. ~ Michel De Montaigne

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain. ~ Max De Pree

All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all. ~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events. ~ Manuel De Landa

Finally, having quite lost his wits, he was seized with the strangest conceit any madman in the world has ever had. It seemed to him that it was requisite and necessary, for the augmentation of his honor and for the benefit of the commonwealth, that he should become a knight-errant and ride throughout the world with his horse and his arms to seek adventures. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Stephanie Plum, off-road warrior. Now this was the way it should be, I thought. Taking action. Hauling ass in the woods behind Diesel. Well, okay – truthfully, I wanted to be in front of Diesel. I wanted to ride point, lead the charge, be the big kahuna. Unfortunately, Diesel was the one who'd memorized the aerial map. And he was supposedly the one with super senses.
'Big whoop-de-do, super senses,' I said.
'I heard that,' Diesel yelled back to me.
'No, you didn't.'
'Yes. I did. ~ Janet Evanovich

The Marquis de Carabas liked being who he was, and when he took risks he liked them to be calculated risks, and he was someone who double-and triple-checked his calculations. He ~ Neil Gaiman

Tristan held up his arms to the Princess as she came out over the side, and carried her up through the shallows so that when he set her down on the white wave pattered sand, not even the soles of her feet were wet. Now this was the first time that ever they had touched each other, save for the times when the Princess had tended Tristan's wounds, and that was a different kind of touching; and as he set her down, their hands came together, as though they did not want it to be so quickly over. And standing hand in hand, they looked at each other, and for the first time Tristan saw that the Princess's eyes were deeply blue, the colour of wild wood-columbines; and she saw that his were as grey as the restless water out beyond the headland. And they were so close that each saw their own reflection standing in the other one's eyes; and in that moment it was as though something of Iseult entered into Tristan and something of Tristan into Iseult, that could never be called back again for as long as they lived. ~ Rosemary Sutcliff

If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him. ~ Delphine De Vigan

What'd did I tell you?" muttered Adrian. He has no fuzzy affection for his father. "De-lightful. ~ Richelle Mead

If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him. ~ Vincent De Paul

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer 's words, to turn pain into knowledge. ~ Alain De Botton