Genocidio De Ruanda Quotes

We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness ~ Miguel De Molinos

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. ~ Michel De Montaigne

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe. ~ Alain De Botton

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. ~ Elaine De Kooning

Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift. ~ Louise Penny

If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy. ~ Cote De Pablo

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. ~ Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

Alas, it is too true. I visited him this morning and found him en deshabille, clasping his brown. He seized on me and demanded a rhyme to some word which I have forgot. So I left him."
"Can no one convince Philippe that he is not a poet?" asked De Bergeret plaintively.
De Vangrisse shook his head. ~ Georgette Heyer

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. ~ Teresa De Lauretis

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I came to realize that detectives and shoemakers see the world from beneath, both focusing more on the footsteps that have strayed away from their intended path than the path itself. ~ Pablo De Santis

Ana had experienced reactions like Ramon's in the mirrored salons of Sevilla society, in the waxed halls of the Convento de las Buenas Madres, on the streets of Cadiz and San Juan. It was a look that said, "I see you, but I deign not to speak to you." It said, "I see you but I do not share the high opinion you have of yourself." It said, "I see you but you're not who I want to see." It said, "To me, you don't exist. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there. ~ Jeffrey Kluger

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available. ~ Alain De Botton

Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning.
"It's every girl's dream to guy to go to prom with the guy she loves?" he echoed, not just one, but both inky black eyebrows raised.
"Don't start with me," I said. I tried to hide my suddenly flaming cheeks by scraping away what was left of the cannolis, and replacing them with the contents of an upended bag of chocolate chip cookies. "I have things to do. ~ Meg Cabot

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. ~ Ninette De Valois

It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist. ~ Louis De Broglie

Nothing changes if we just feel shitty about being White. And nothing changes if we refuse to talk about it. The opposite of white pride does not have to be white shame. We can't push it away and pretend it's not us. We are not color-blind, we are not post-race, we do not get to reject our whiteness because it makes us feel bad…This does not get solved with a Celebration of Diversity Day and a coexist bumper sticker. (Kate Schatz) ~ Carolina De Robertis

If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand. If the weather had been mild, you would have loitered along the watercourses, but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward and wrapped around you the warm robe of Saviour's righteousness. ~ Thomas De Witt Talmage

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. ~ Michel De Montaigne

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done. ~ Machado De Assis

All grown-ups were once children ... but only few of them remember it. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preconceived ideas. ~ Louis De Bernieres

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness. ~ Honore De Balzac

CUSTOMER: These books are really stupid, aren't they?
BOOKSELLER: Which ones?
CUSTOMER: You know, the ones where animals like cats and mice are best friends.
BOOKSELLER: I suppose they're not very realistic, but then that's fiction.
CUSTOMER: They're more than unrealistic; they're really stupid.
BOOKSELLER: Well, writers use that kind of thing to teach kids about accepting people different to themselves, you know?
CUSTOMER: Yeah, well, books shouldn't pretend that different people get on like that and that everything is 'la de da' and wonderful, should they? Kids should learn that life's a bitch, and the sooner the better. ~ Jen Campbell

De pronto no puedo decirte
lo que yo te debo decir,
hombre,perdóname; sabrás
que aunque no escuches mis palabras
no me eché a llorar ni a dormir
y que contigo estoy sin verte
desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin.

I can't just suddenly tell you
what I should be telling you,
friend, forgive me; you know
that although you don't hear my words,
I wasn't asleep or in tears,
that I am with you without seeing you
for a good long time and until the end. ~ Pablo Neruda

Never would I trade for some new shape
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart. ~ Francesco Petrarca

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. ~ Miguel De Cervantes