Langueur De La Quotes

In order to be united with him, the will must consequently be emptied of and detached from all disordered appetite and satisfaction with respect to every particular thing in which it can rejoice, whether earthly or heavenly, temporal or spiritual, so that purged and cleansed of all inordinate satisfactions, joys, and appetites it might be wholly occupied in loving God with its affections. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There was a muchacha who lived near my house. La gente del pueblo talked about her being una de las otras, "of the Others." They said that for six months she was a woman who had a vagina that bled once a month, and that for the other six months she was a man, had a penis and she peed standing up. they called her half and half, mita' y mita', neither one nor the other but a strange doubling, a deviation of nature that horrified, a work of nature inverted. But there is a magic aspect in abnormality and so-called deformity. Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to posess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his inborn extraordinary gift.

There is something compelling about being both male and female, about having an entry into both worlds. Contrary to some psychiatric tenets, half and halfs are not suffering from a confusion of sexual identity, or even from a confusion of gender. What we are suffering from is an absolute despot duality that says we are able to be only one or the other. It claims that human nature is limited and cannot evolve into something better. But I, like other queer people, am two in one body, both male and female. I am the embodiment of the heiros gamos: the coming together of opposite qualities within. ~ Gloria E Anzaldua

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ... ~ Walter De La Mare

His career, my education, his freedom, my innocence ... all tied together in a nice little package of morality. ~ Gretchen De La O

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment. ~ Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

It must be pointed out to the preacher, if he is to cause his people profit and not to embarrass himself with vain joy and presumption, that preaching is a spiritual exercise rather than a vocal one. For, although it is practiced by means of outward words, its power and efficacy reside not in these but in the inward spirit. Wherefore, however lofty be the doctrine that is preached, and however choice the rhetoric and sublime the style wherein it is clothed, it brings as a rule no more benefit than is present in the spirit of the preacher. ~ Juan De La Cruz

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

privation is the cause of appetite ~ Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Edilio lay on the steps of town hall feeling as weak as a kitten. He had barely heard Caine's big speech. He couldn't have cared less. There was nothing he could do, not with delirium spinning his head.
He coughed hard, too hard. It wracked his body each time he did it so that he dreaded the next cough. His stomach was clenched in knots. Every muscle in his body ached.
He was vaguely aware that he was saying something in between coughs.
"Mamá. Mamá. Sálvame."
Save me, mother.
"Santa María, sálvame," he begged, and coughed so hard he smashed his head against the steps.
Death was near, he felt it. Death reached through his swimming, disordered mind and he felt its cold hand clutching his heart.
Santa María, Madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros pecadores, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte. ~ Michael Grant

Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station - the Gare D'Orsay - and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees - nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train? ~ Margaret Anderson

Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves. ~ Paz De La Huerta

In love we often doubt what we most believe. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Pausing on the threshold, he looked in, conscious not so much of the few familiar sticks of furniture - the trucklebed, the worn strip of Brussels carpet, the chipped blue-banded ewer and basin, the framed illuminated texts on the walls - as of a perfect hive of abhorrent memories.
That high cupboard in the corner, from which certain bodiless shapes had been wont to issue and stoop at him cowering out of his dreams; the crab-patterned paper that came alive as you stared; the window cold with menacing stars; the mouseholes, the rusty grate - trumpet of every wind that blows - these objects at once lustily shouted at him in their own original tongues.
("Out Of The Deep") ~ Walter De La Mare

I want to get people thinking. ~ James De La Vega

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Privation is the source of appetite. ~ Juana Ines De La Cruz

Marriage was like the surface of an ocean, seemingly placid and serene above; yet if you weren't careful, seething and raging with underground earthquakes below. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times! ~ Melissa De La Cruz

A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse with a woman, who is at liberty to refuse ; but when he falls ill, or when his mistress is with child, she is discarded, and he believes in God. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He stared at the glowing moon again, and he listened to the whispering ocean. His thoughts were more staticky than before, but for the first time since the summer started, he felt like he understood the ocean's whispering. It all came down to this. The darkness. The loneliness. The mystery. The fact that everyone's days were numbered, and it didn't matter if you were in premier class or worked in housekeeping. Those were only costumes people wore. And once you stripped them away you saw the truth. This giant ocean and this dark pressing sky. We only have a few minutes, but the unexplainable world is constant and forever marching forward. ~ Matt De La Pena

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student. ~ Jean-Francois De La Harpe

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

His brown eyes would roam around the various sentimental and artistic bric-a-brac present, and his own banal toiles (the conventionally primitive eyes, sliced guitars, blue nipples and geometrical designs of the day), and with a vague gesture toward a painted wooden bowl or veined vase, he would say "Prenez donc une des ces poires. La bonne dame d'en face m'en offre plus que je n'en peux savourer." Or: "Mississe Taille Lore vient de me donner ces dahlias, belles fleurs que j'exècre. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't later complain because you helped put him there. That's why I never vote, so I can later complain. ~ Sergio De La Pava

The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld