La Lyonnaise Quotes

My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me the best onion soup on that night with George and my father. The two owners hailed from France, from Lyon, before the city had boomed into a culinary sibling of Paris. Inside, it had only a few tables, and the waiters served everything out of order, and it had a B rating in the window, and they usually sat me right by the swinging kitchen door, but I didn't care about any of it.
There, I ordered chicken Dijon, or beef Bourguignon, or a simple green salad, or a pate sandwich, and when it came to the table, I melted into whatever arrived. I lavished in a forkful of spinach gratin on the side, at how delighted the chef had clearly been over the balance of spinach and cheese, like she was conducting a meeting of spinach and cheese, like a matchmaker who knew they would shortly fall in love. Sure, there were small distractions and preoccupations in it all, but I could find the food in there, the food was the center, and the person making the food was so connected with the food that I could really, for once, enjoy it. ~ Aimee Bender

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen. ~ Susette La Flesche

La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school. ~ Pedro Almodovar

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam. ~ Billy Boyd

Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.

Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,
Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."

"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,
Seized him with my beautiful form
That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.

Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,
took me so strongly with delight in him
That, as you see, it still abandons me not... ~ Dante Alighieri

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land. ~ Fiorello H. La Guardia

It requires more than mere genius to be an author. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

I really like action-dramas like 'The Professional' or 'La Femme Nikita.' I'd really like to be in a movie like that. ~ Cassie Steele

Let me be clear, la mia tigrotta. I'm taking you to bed. I'm going to strip off your clothes, bury myself deep inside you, and make you come so many times the only word from your lips will be my name, begging me to do it all over again. ~ Jennifer Probst

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

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners. ~ 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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time. ~ Timothy Schaffert

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear. ~ Tony La Russa

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Simplicity is a delicate imposition. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Plus je vois le homes, plus j'admire les chiens (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs). ~ Marie-Jeanne Roland De La Platiere

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

I can only say God is faithful because what's happening in my life right now was said in the year 2011 in LA and that I was so discouraged, things were not happening according to my plan. God the promise keeper gave me a promise that day and I see that promise manifesting daily. Thank you Jesus your promises are 'Yes and Amen'. ~ Euginia Herlihy

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Get down, get down, little Henry Lee
And stay all night with me
You won't find a girl in this damn world
That will compare with me
And the wind did howl and the wind did blow
La la la la la
La la la la lee
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee ... ~ Nick Cave

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

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

...first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simultancous" distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning ~ Norman Klein

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Many praise and bless Jesus as long as they receive some consolation from Him, but if He hide Himself and leave them for a little while, they fall either into complaining or into excessive dejection. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City. ~ David Cross

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing. ~ Charles Duhigg

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My words are like a musical instrument, softly & seductively playing under the moonlight as they penetrate the depths of your loins! ~ Rokk-I La' VON