Kasteel De Haar Quotes

I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation. ~ Robert De Niro

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur. ~ Tennessee Williams

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

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. ~ Alain De Lille

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo ... With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

He enables [his children] to walk before him; he holds their hand in difficulties; he himself carries them along in hardships that he sees as being otherwise unbearable to them. ~ Francis De Sales

Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Yes, no. I don't know. It's all so confusing. I'm just a kid."
Abuelo smiled. "You kept saying that while you told me your story, but what does it mean?"
"That I'm too young to have to be making decisions like this."
"You're never too young to do the right thing," Abuelo said. ~ Charles De Lint

You messed up with the wrong Angel. My weapon is a double-edge sword. One side of the blade represents Truth and the other represents Karma. ~ Joshua De Vera Bautista

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

We seek abroad what is missing in our own lives, what we hunger for in vain at home. (Alain de Botton) ~ Scott Driscoll

Predictably, the national broadcaster - a viper's nest of socialists, tree-huggers and ugly, barren females - had seized on the survey, exhuming one of its bleeding-heart ideologues to moan about funding cuts to education. ~ Michelle De Kretser

Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid. ~ Gustave De Molinari

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

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

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses. ~ Michel De Montaigne

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ~ Charles De Secondat

There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by. ~ Bruce Jenner

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch. ~ John Bayley

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him ... The land of tears is so mysterious. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me. ~ Portia De Rossi

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through. ~ Voltairine De Cleyre

The city has a face, the country a soul. ~ Jacques De Lacretelle

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

A woman with a mind is fit for any task. ~ Christine De Pizan

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the simple rather than the ornate. The reason owes nothing to climate or genetics, added Keene, but is the result of the actions of writers, painters and theorists, who had actively shaped the sense of beauty of their nation.
Contrary to the Romantic belief that we each settle naturally on a fitting idea of beauty, it seems that our visual and emotional faculties in fact need constant external guidance to help them decide what they should take note of and appreciate. 'Culture' is the word we have assigned to the force that assists us in identifying which of our many sensations we should focus on and apportion value to. ~ Alain De Botton

True love in my view can only flourish in conditions where there is a mixture of freedom and constraint. An imposed love, sanctioned by law and blessed by a priest does not really seem the same thing at all ~ Guy De Maupassant

You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name."
I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading.
Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world. ~ Erri De Luca

Put black on white. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Delusions are not harmful in themselves, they only hurt when one is alone in believing in them, when one cannot create an environment in which they can be sustained. ~ Alain De Botton

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being. ~ Jerry Hall

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. ~ Honore De Balzac