Geralt De Rivia Quotes

...Maybe one day it will be that you
will need help ...Then call, call into the night. And I'll come."
-Geralt of Rivia ~ Andrzej Sapkowski

Sir Falwick," said Geralt, not ceasing to smile. "If he draws his sword, I'll take it from him and beat the snotty-nosed little brat's arse with the flat of his blade. And then I'll batter the door down with him. ~ Andrzej Sapkowski

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

We are never content with our lot. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues. ~ Christine De Pizan

Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability of a new finding has been fully confirmed, people say - OK, it may be true but it has no real significance. At last, when even the significance of the finding is obvious to everybody, people say - Well, it might have some significance, but the idea is not new. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The journey is better than the inn". ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The return makes one love the farewell. ~ Alfred De Musset

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. ~ Charles De Montesquieu

Commerce is the school of cheating. ~ Luc De Clapiers

I should like to find a crime with perpetual repercussions, which would continue even after I had ceased to act, so there would not be a single instant of my life, not even when I was asleep, when I would not be causing some sort of disorder, a disorder so extensive as to involve general corruption, or so absolute a disturbance that its effect would be prolonged even when my life had ceased. ~ Marquis De Sade

He tried his luck again, and things went so smoothly that with no more noise or disturbance than the last time, he found himself rid of the burden that had caused him so much grief. But since Don Quixote had a sense of smell as acute as his hearing, and Sancho was joined so closely to him, and the vapors rose up almost in a straight line, some unavoidably reached his nostrils, and as soon as they did he came to the assistance of his nostrils and squeezed them closed between two fingers, and in a somewhat nasal voice, he said: It seems to me, Sancho, that you are very frightened. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. ~ Honore De Balzac

Love reaches a pitch at those moments when our beloved turns out to understand, more clearly than others have ever been able to, and perhaps even better than we do ourselves, the chaotic, embarrassing and shameful parts of us. That someone else gets who we are and both sympathizes with and forgives us for what they see underpins our whole capacity to trust and to give. Love is a dividend of gratitude for our lover's insight into our own confused and troubled psyche. ~ Alain De Botton

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We've never heard
About a marvel quite so great,
For all the heroes who have lived
In history can't measure up
In bravery against the Maid. ~ Christine De Pizan

She was chased by the feelings she was not ready to let go of. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint. ~ Michel De Montaigne

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. ~ Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I can't imagine it now, but I must've been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don't just get itself born bad, do it? ~ Charles De Lint

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth . ~ Anthony De Mello

Exercise is an unnatural act. ~ Peter De Vries

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee predators. This shift made it necessary for the men to actively protect the women and their babies. Only as a result of this protection were women able to give birth in shorter intervals, perhaps once every two or three years. This meant that they could produce offspring about twice as frequently as apes. I would be willing to bet that this rapid reproduction is one of the reasons why we dominate the world today, and not the apes. ~ Frans De Waal

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct. ~ Honore De Balzac

Japanese things - laquers, netsuke, prints - conjure a picture of a place where sensations are always new, where art pours out of daily life, where everything exists in a dream of endless beautiful flow. ~ Edmund De Waal

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things. ~ Cecile De France

Men can be unjust towards me, my dear Junot,' he wrote to his faithful aide-de-camp, 'but it suffices to be innocent; my conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct. ~ Andrew Roberts

The soul that has no established aim loses itself ~ Michel De Montaigne

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools ~ Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha! ~ Rafael Sabatini

He was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were not ruined
Heee!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always had good health. ~ Victor Hugo

Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun. ~ Bernie De Koven

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements. ~ Paul De Man

The road to the inn is much better than the stay. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. ~ Peter De Vries

The promotion of 'average' individual causes a general levelling down. ~ Alain De Benoist

Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes. ~ Matthew De Abaitua

I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too? ~ Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it - our life - hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly. But let all this threaten to become impossible for ever, how beautiful it would become again! Ah! if only the cataclysm doesn't happen this time, we won't miss visiting the new galleries of the Louvre, throwing ourselves at the feet of Miss X, making a trip to India. The cataclysm doesn't happen, we don't do any of it, because we find ourselves back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire. And yet we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening. ~ Alain De Botton

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual. ~ Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. ~ Jean De La Bruyere