Laure De Noves Quotes

Never would I trade for some new shape
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart. ~ Francesco Petrarca

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book. ~ John De Mol, Jr.

We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure parts of us, whose presence solves so many of our woes, must somehow also be able to fix everything about our lives. We exaggerate the other's powers in a curious sort of homage - heard in adult life decades down the line - to a small child's awe at their own parents' apparently miraculous capacities. To ~ Alain De Botton

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away? ~ Eugenie De Guerin

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. ~ Alain De Botton

Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms. ~ Annie Dillard

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner ~ Saint Francis De Sales

The chatterer reveals every corner of her shallow mind. ~ Frances De Pontes Peebles

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability. ~ Mark Lynas

Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

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

Rognons de Veau à la Bordelaise is simplicity itself to make; no different, essentially, from Poulet Sauté, and no different, especially, from Bifteck Sauté Bercy. In fact, making it that night felt like falling into a time warp- I stood before the stove, melting butter and browning meat and smelling the smells of wine deglazing and shallots softening- but the dishes changed before my eyes, and I heard Julia warbling, "Boeuf Bourguignon is the same as Coq au Vin. You can use lamb, you can use veal, you can use pork.... ~ Julie Powell

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that. ~ Edward De Bono

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more ... more dangerous. ~ Marianne De Pierres

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do. ~ Charles De Lint

... nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings. ~ Enrique De Heriz

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other. ~ Max De Pree

The heart is forever making the head its fool. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman. ~ Honore De Balzac

If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?

E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?

--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42 ~ Dante Alighieri

Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ? ~ Denis De Rougemont

Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am glad that, over the last few years, we've had more regular, and increasingly constructive, political discussions in NATO on a wider range of issues. ~ Jaap De Hoop Scheffer

To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them. ~ Marquis De Sade

Loneliness has been following me my whole life. ~ Robert De Niro

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart. ~ John De Ruiter

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting. ~ Aubrey De Grey

Today I had a lively discussion with a merchant in Fez with a view to finding out what the Moors think of European civilization.... He was a fine man, about forty years old, with an honest and serious face, who had made business visits to the most important cities in Western Europe and had lived for a long time in Tangier, where he learnt Spanish....
I asked him therefore what kind of impression the large cities of Europe had made on him....
He looked hard at me and answered coldly:
"Large streets, fine shops, beautiful palaces, good workshops, everything clean." He gave the impression that with these words, he had mentioned everything in our countries that was worthy of praise.
"Have you not found anything else in Europe that is beautiful and good?" I asked.

He looked at me questioningly. "Is it possible," I went on, "that an intelligent man like you, who has visited several countries so marvelously superior to your own can speak about them without astonishment, or at least without the emotion of a country boy who has seen the pasha's palace? What can you possibly admire in the world? What sort of people are you? Who can possibly understand you?"

"Perdone Usted", he answered coldly, "it is for me to say that I cannot understand you. I have told you all the things which I consider to be better in Europe. What more can I say? Have I to say something that I do not believe to be true? I repeat that your streets are larger than ours, yo ~ Edmondo De Amicis

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. ~ Jean De La Bruyere