Leendert De Ridder Quotes

All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick. ~ Lope De Vega

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

In short, to sum up all in a few words, or in a single one, I may tell you I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance;' for though self-praise is degrading, I must perforce sound my own sometimes, that is to say, when there is no one at hand to do it for me. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You must see to it that you
pull up regularly all the baobabs, at the very first moment when they can be
distinguished from the rosebushes which they resemble so closely in their
earliest youth ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Half awake and almost dead.
But yet we were breathing and yet we were waiting...
Waiting for a miracle to happen. ~ M.L Van De Weetering

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Oh! how many times we die before death! ~ Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create. ~ Paco De Lucia

The soul in which philosophy dwells should by its health make even the body healthy. It should make its tranquillity and gladness shine out from within; should form in its own mold the outward demeanor, and consequently arm it with a graceful pride, an active and joyous bearing, and a contented and good-natured countenance. The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness. ~ Michel De Montaigne

What the little prince would not admit to himself was that he was sorry to leave this planet, blessed as it was with one thousand and four hundred and forty sunsets every day. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I don't ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them. ~ Paz De La Huerta

This is the violence that captures our fear and attention, even though only 20 percent of all homicides are committed by strangers. The other 80 percent are committed by people we know, so I'll focus on those we hire, those we work with, those we fire, those we date, those we marry, those we divorce. ~ Gavin De Becker

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left. ~ Warren De La Rue

To say that everything is idea or that everything is spirit, is the same as saying that everything is matter or that everything is energy, for if everything is idea or spirit, just as my consciousness is, it is not plain why the diamond should not endure for ever, if my consciousness, because it is idea or spirit, endures forever. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on. ~ Josephine De La Baume

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however, whether, because of this danger, you should refuse to practice such a beautiful virtue as charity. ~ Vincent De Paul

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. ~ Sylvia Plath

The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about? ... You put your whole self in! ~ Martin De Maat

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself? ~ Emile Zola

It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger. ~ Jeffrey Bernard

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know. ~ Portia De Rossi

201. - He who thinks he has the power to content the world greatly deceives himself, but he who thinks that the world cannot be content with him deceives himself yet more. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit. ~ Francois De Malherbe

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a shipwreck. ~ Charles De Gaulle

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly. ~ Anthony De Mello

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. ~ George Benson

I sit here before my computer, Amiguita, my altar on top of the monitor with the Virgen de Coatlalopeuh candle and copal incense burning. My companion, a wooden serpent staff with feathers, is to my right while I ponder the ways metaphor and symbol concretize the spirit and etherealize the body. The Writing is my whole life, it is my obsession. This vampire which is my talent does not suffer other suitors. Daily I court it, offer my neck to its teeth. This is the sacrifice that the act of creation requires, a blood sacrifice. For only through the body, through the pulling of flesh, can the human soul be transformed. And for images, words, stories to have this transformative power, they must arise from the human body
flesh and bone
and from the Earth's body
stone, sky, liquid, soil. This work, these images, piercing tongue or ear lobes with cactus needle, are my offerings, are my Aztecan blood sacrifices. ~ Gloria E Anzaldua

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing." ~ Peter De Vries

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite. ~ Honore De Balzac

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities. ~ Charles De Lint

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation. ~ Honore De Balzac

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

The way I feel about suicide is, I like knowing it's there. I like having it as an option. Because if I'm going to kill myself, then nothing really matters, so I might as well stick around for one more day. Just to see what happens. Out of curiosity. If I'm going to die anyway, then nothing is of particular consequence, so why not see what happens next? That way all I have to do is live until tomorrow. I know I can always handle one more day. ~ Nina De Gramont

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. ~ Honore De Balzac

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance. ~ Anthony De Mello

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
[On Water] ~ Guy De Maupassant

You know ... when you are sad you love the sunsets. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery