Gargalhadas De Bruxa Quotes

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

What now? We bury the dead and take care of the living. [Referring to 1 November 1755 catastrophic earthquake] ~ Sebastião José De Carvalho E Melo

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Therefore, in the mature account of love, we should never fall at first glance. We should reserve our leap until we have completed a clear-eyed investigation of the depths and nature of the waters. Only after we have undertaken a thorough exchange of opinions on parenting, politics, art, science, and appropriate snacks for the kitchen should two people ever decide they are ready to love each other. ~ Alain De Botton

In order to be united with him, the will must consequently be emptied of and detached from all disordered appetite and satisfaction with respect to every particular thing in which it can rejoice, whether earthly or heavenly, temporal or spiritual, so that purged and cleansed of all inordinate satisfactions, joys, and appetites it might be wholly occupied in loving God with its affections. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions. ~ Gustave De Beaumont

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

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?

E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?

--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42 ~ Dante Alighieri

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Our lives are full of things. Disposable distractions, stuff you buy but do not cherish, own yet never love. Thrown away in weeks, rather than passed down for generations. Perhaps things will be different now. Wiser choices made with greater care. After all, if the fewer things you own always excite you, Would you really miss the many that never could? ~ The De Beers Family Of Companies

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. ~ Honore De Balzac

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light? ~ Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?
You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions. ~ Gerard De Nerval

The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Usually, they have to attach a tentacle to someone else before detaching all the tentacles from their current object. ~ Gavin De Becker

Be the designer of your own destiny. ~ Oscar De La Renta

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. ~ Alain De Botton

By then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough for me to feel justified in buying a real instrument. I bought a Gretsch with a De-Armond pickup on it and a second-hand Gibson amplifier; it looked like the one Charlie Christian used. I guess it was the same, although there were several models coming out at that time - this would be in I939. ~ Tal Farlow

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. ~ Charles De Montesquieu

...the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them, even as all else had been lost: dignity.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness. To be deprived of it is to be de-humanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below mankind. Men subjected to dehumanizing treatment experience profound wretchedness and loneliness, and find that hope is almost impossible to retain. Without dignity, identity is erased...

[They] learned a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler's death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people: Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point in which the body should have surrendered it. The loss of it can carry a man off as surely as thirst, hunger, exposure and asphyxiation, and with greater cruelty... degradation could be as lethal as a bullet. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

It is a question of discipline," the little prince said to me later on. "When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

In love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself! ~ Belle De Jour

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long. ~ Luc De Clapiers

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her. ~ Honore De Balzac

Yes, I could win the Olympics. I hope to, and that's what I'm training for. But it's really going to come down to me racing on that day ... Just being really calm and mature about what the reality is - that's my strategy. ~ Mark De Jonge

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know. ~ Agnes De Mille

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. ~ Charles De Gaulle

So love the thought of death, love it. ~ Anthony De Mello