La Fleur Quotes

I have to tell you hon, I don't mind a little teasing now and then, but I'm no masochist and I'm sure as hell no saint ... here lately, being around you is agony. ~ Jackson Broussard

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices. ~ Paul La Farge

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

Men may deprive me of property and honour; sickness may take away my strength and other means of serving You; I may even lose Your grace by sin; but never, never will I lose my hope in You. I will cherish it unto that dreadful moment when all hell will be unchained to snatch my soul away. "No one has hoped in the Lord and has been confounded" ~ Claude De La Colombiere

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself. ~ Guy De La Valdene

La lingua non ha ossa, ma rompe il dorsol... The tongue has no bones but can break a man's back! ~ Wally Lamb

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Put it bluntly, Prince Ben, this blows, said Genie, who ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Jealousy is not love, but self-love. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I just want us to be together," he said. "I mean, know it's not possible. But why not? [ ... ] Don't you want us to be together? -Oliver ~ Melissa De La Cruz

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Watch your back, wolf. There's a pall over this place and the bears are racking up enemies faster than Wal-Mart rakes in sales. When the time comes, it's going to get bloody. (Thorn)
I wouldn't have it any other way. (Fang)
Don't be so arrogant. Long before I was the debonair sophisticate standing in front of you, I was a warlord. I put more blood on my blade than Madame la Guillotine. The one thing all that battle taught me is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Thorn) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

There are evidences of a very great art in Europe as long as twenty-five thousand years ago, and in Egypt as far back as sixty thousand years. Money had nothing to to do with the production of these treasures. Money will have nothing to do with the art of the future. ~ Henry Miller

Lucifer, the most beautiful angel of all time,became so enamored with his own beauty and power that he came to believe his light was greater than the Almighty ... ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Be strong and solid in your uniqueness. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people. ~ Fleur East

The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it. ~ Anne Bancroft

You may be able to call up an entire
encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain
with no heart and no reasoning ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The pain in Vinay's voice disturbed Radhika. "Shangri-La is a state of mind, Vinay. If you're happy, then everything around you will be okay and in harmony. Nothing is perfect anywhere. We must find our own paradise amidst the chaos. Just the way a beautiful lotus blooms in dirty water. ~ Nita Bajoria (The Leap)

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet. ~ Matt De La Pena

La pensée n'est qu'un écliar au milieu d'une longue nuit. Mais c'est cet éclair qui est tout.

Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night. But this flash means everything. ~ Henri Poincare

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

People who make no noise are dangerous. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

flight's next stopover, La Paz, a little ~ George Jehn

433. - The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. ["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae." - Cicero In Marc Ant.] ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The secret of great style is to feel good in what you wear ~ Ines De La Fressange

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much. ~ Scott Speedman

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

With respect also to spiritual sloth, beginners are apt to be irked by the things that are most spiritual, from which they flee because these things are incompatible with sensible pleasure. For, as they are so much accustomed to sweetness in spiritual things, they are wearied by things in which they find no sweetness. If once they failed to find in prayer the satisfaction which their taste required (and after all it is well that God should take it from them to prove them), they would prefer not to return to it: sometimes they leave it; at other times they continue it unwillingly. And thus because of this sloth they abandon the way of perfection (which is the way of the negation of their will and pleasure for God's sake) for the pleasure and sweetness of their own will, which they aim at satisfying in this way rather than the will of God.

And many of these would have God will that which they themselves will, and are fretful at having to will that which He wills, and find it repugnant to accommodate their will to that of God. Hence it happens to them that oftentimes they think that that wherein they find not their own will and pleasure is not the will of God; and that, on the other hand, when they themselves find satisfaction, God is satisfied. Thus they measure God by themselves and not themselves by God, acting quite contrarily to that which He Himself taught in the Gospel, saying: That he who should lose his will for His sake, the same should gain it; and he who s ~ Juan De La Cruz

But for Jack, the sight of Schuyler Van Alen had only served to ignite a feeling he had been repressing for months. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Unique to Sichuan, ma is the spicy flavor of a wild tree peppercorn called huajiao - with a taste between peppercorn, caraway, and clove, but so strong that too much will numb the mouth. Two varieties grow in Sichuan, clay red peppercorns and the more perfumey brown ones. La means "hot spice" and is accomplished with small burning red peppers. The combined seasoning, ma-la, defines the taste of Sichuan food. ~ Mark Kurlansky

The color, the shape, and the texture
none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years
centuries, even
before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection. ~ Tim Gunn

It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

-From the poem Fear ~ Fleur Adcock

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed. ~ Jimmy Fallon

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it. ~ Madame De La Fayette