Masina De Cusut Quotes

Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line. ~ Arie De Geus

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be. ~ Frans De Waal

Learn to see God in the details of your life, for He is everywhere. ~ Francis De Sales

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others ... Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity. ~ Alain De Botton

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself. ~ Alain De Botton

Let him cry, it's good for his lungs" is not the solution mothers wish to hear. Disregarding the problem does not make it go away. ~ Hetty Van De Rijt

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Do we know exactly who we are? The more urgently we quest for our authentic selves, the more they tend to recede. The Knight and Sancho, as the great work closes, know exactly who they are, not so much by their adventures as through their marvelous conversations, be they quarrels or exchanges of insights. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are. ~ Barbara De Angelis

It's against etiquette to yawn in the presence of a King, - the monarch told him. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. ~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible. ~ Madame De Stael

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work. ~ Robert De Niro

Life can be unfair and unkind, but sometimes we just have to let go and let fate take over. ~ Lisa De Jong

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. ~ Alain De Botton

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice. ~ Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. ~ Thomas De Quincey

Predatory animals usually devour prey in order to convert flesh into fuel. Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power. This applies equally to a political movement, a government, a campaign, a career, a marriage, a performance, a fortune, or a religion. To push a pie into the face of the world's richest man is to take his power, if only for a moment. ~ Gavin De Becker

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. ~ Francisco De Quevedo

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ~ Charles De Secondat

One evening, on being quite occupied by the state of the struffoli, I seated the Duca di San Orvieta with the Duchessa opposite, and between two of his mistresses. They fought over his attentions, above the table and below, like squid intent on extracting a mollusc from its shell. The poor man was so distracted that he hardly ate a bite. The Duchessa's words to me afterwards were not lacking in picturesque vividness. ~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

The marquis de Carabas looked up at him. His eyes were very white in the moonlight. And he whispered, What's it like being dead? It's very cold, my friend. Very dark, and very cold. ~ Neil Gaiman

Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it ... if they corrupt the morals of the people, spread a taste for luxury, effeminacy, a rage for licentious pleasures, - if they stimulate the higher orders to a ruinous pomp and extravagance, - beware, citizens! beware of those corruptors! they only aim at purchasing slaves in order to exercise over them an arbitrary sway. ~ Emer De Vattel

The secret is to renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow. ~ Anthony De Mello

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~ Charles De Gaulle

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor. ~ Alain De Botton

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East. ~ Martin Amis

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour , royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character . ~ Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. ~ LeRoy Neiman

Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years ... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity. ~ Stuart Townsend

It is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young or slender. 'Thank God!' we say,' those illusions are gone.' Everything added to the self is a burden as well as a pride. ~ Alain De Botton

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen. ~ Danielle De Niese

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. ~ Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

I saw that every flower He has created has a beauty of its own, that the splendor of the rose and the lily's whiteness do not deprive the violet of its scent nor make less ravishing the daisy's charm. I saw that if every little flower wished to be a rose, Nature would lose her spring adornments, and the fields would be no longer enameled with their varied flowers. ~ Therese De Lisieux

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. ~ Guy De Maupassant