Lauberge De Sedona Quotes

For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do. ~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition. ~ Vincent De Paul

I shall approach. Before taking off his hat, I shall take off my own. I shall say, "The Marquis de Saint Eustache, I believe." He will say, "The celebrated Mr. Syme, I presume." He will say in the most exquisite French, "How are you?" I shall reply in the most exquisite Cockney, "Oh, just the Syme."'
'Oh shut it ... what are you really going to do?'
'But it was a lovely catechism! ... Do let me read it to you. It has only forty-three questions and answers, some of the Marquis's answers are wonderfully witty. I like to be just to my enemy.'
'But what's the good of it all?' asked Dr. Bull in exasperation.
'It leads up to the challenge ... when the Marquis as given the forty-ninth reply, which runs
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'Has it ... occurred to you ... that the Marquis may not say all the forty-three things you have put down for him?'
'How true that is! ... Sir, you have a intellect beyond the common. ~ G.K. Chesterton

The History of Ireland in two words: Ah well.

The Invasion by the Vikings: Ah well.

The Invasion by the Normans. The Flight of the Earls, Mr Oliver Cromwell. Daniel O'Connell, Robert Emmett, The Famine, Charles Stewart Parnell, Easter Rising, Michael Collins, Éamon De Valera, Éamon De Valera again (Dear Germany, so sorry to learn of the death of your Mr Hitler), Éamon De Valera again, the Troubles, the Tribunals, the Fianna Fáil Party, The Church, the Banks, the eight hundred years of rain: Ah well.

In the Aeneid Virgil tells it as Sunt lacrimae rerum, which in Robert Fitzgerald's translation means 'They weep for how the world goes', which is more eloquent than Ah well but means the same thing. ~ Niall Williams

There is no chain of philosophical reasoning or method of philosophical enquiry through which we can arrive at the truths of faith as conclusions. But once by faith we have acknowledged those truths we are able to understand why there is good reason to acknowledge them. This, as he was to argue a little later, is because of the effects of sin on the human mind. It is "because human minds are obscured by familiarity with darkness, which covers them in a night of sins and bad habits, and are unable to perceive with the clarity and purity proper to reason" that authority has been provided to bring "the faltering eye into the light of truth" (De moribus ecclesiae catholicae 31.2.31). ~ Alasdair MacIntyre

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften. ~ John De Ruiter

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper? ~ Anthony De Mello

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. ~ Charles De Montesquieu

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn. ~ Yvonne De Carlo

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ~ Honore De Balzac

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion. ~ Alain De Botton

Greg Broadmore's fertile and twisted imagination has conjoined multiple genres, memories, and a sharp sense of pulp, colonialist nostalgia/parody in this lavish, fully realized, imaginative tour-de-force. It's Jules Verne meets Fritz Lang meets Tintin.
It's beyond Steampunk. It's clearly an insatiable passion for the talismans of a bygone civilization and it's slavish addiction to the early industrial age in all it's filigreed, ignorant glory. Greg has raised the bar. ~ Adam Savage

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The only excuse a man has for writing is that he express himself, that he reveal to others the kind of world reflected in the mirror of his soul; his only excuse is that he be original. ~ Remy De Gourmont

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible. ~ Christine De Pizan

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

In short, our gentleman became so immersed in his reading that he spent whole nights from sundown to sunup and his days from dawn to dusk in poring over his books, until, finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. He filled his imagination with everything he had read, with enchantments, knightly encounters, battles, challenges, wounds, with tales of love and its torments, and all sorts of impossible things, and as a result had come to believe that all these fictitious happenings were true; they were more real to him than anything else in the world. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Nothing flows from her, vile rabble. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always. ~ Juliette De Bairacli Levy

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. ~ Charles De Lint

When you know something is right in your heart, you shouldn't wait to make it happen. Life is full of uncertainties. ~ Lisa De Jong

Joanna looked down at ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
[My Uncle Sosthenes] ~ Guy De Maupassant

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Love is the poetry of the senses! ~ Honore De Balzac

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated. ~ Simon De Pury

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro. ~ Jackie Chan

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. ~ Arie De Geus