Metaforas De Amor Quotes

[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere ... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist ~ Jon Pareles

How little imagination and courage we show in our hatreds. ~ Amor Towles

ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions. ~ Amor Towles

FRONTA NULLA FIDES. Place no trust in appearances. ~ Amor Towles

But, Audrius, I have never taken the lift in my life! ~ Amor Towles

Man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them ~ Amor Towles

the wise man celebrates what he can. ~ Amor Towles

The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but ~ Amor Towles

I suppose a room is the summation of all that has happened inside it. ~ Amor Towles

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to. ~ Amor Towles

If patience wasn't so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue. . . . "Yes, ~ Amor Towles

on a map: There it ~ Amor Towles

Having acknowledged that a man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them, the ~ Amor Towles

if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them. ~ Amor Towles

…how fine almost any human endeavour can be made to sound when expressed in the proper French…. ~ Amor Towles

Vyshinsky: And your occupation? ~ Amor Towles

was ten and eleven ~ Amor Towles

end of every question. ~ Amor Towles

that if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them. The ~ Amor Towles

I suppose Anne was right when she observed that at any given moment we're all seeking someone's forgiveness. ~ Amor Towles

For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How ~ Amor Towles

History has shown charm to be the final ambition of the leisure class. ~ Amor Towles

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is. ~ Virgil

Arriving late, thought the Count with a sigh. What a delicacy of youth. Then ~ Amor Towles

Hollywood is the single most dangerous force in the history of class struggle." Or ~ Amor Towles

Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things. ~ Lauren Oliver

the manner of Prince Tetrakov, was now touring the room, shaking ~ Amor Towles

The world is wide, and wondrous are the ways of men.... ~ Amor Towles

But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most. ~ Amor Towles

By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End The ~ Amor Towles

I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb. ~ Amor Towles

To get out of that party, we both would have volunteered to walk a rabid dog. ~ Amor Towles

But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And ~ Amor Towles

the only things that came from the practice were foolhardy acts, ill-advised liaisons, and gambling debts. ~ Amor Towles

Or rather, he stood at a slight tilt induced by the wine, a sort of 12:02. ~ Amor Towles

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense. ~ Amor Towles

Returning to his quarters, he opened the window (though it was only the size of a postage stamp), ~ Amor Towles

I sutured split infinitives and hoisted dangling modifiers and wore out the seam of my best flannel skirt. ~ Amor Towles

Charlotte Sykes approaching from the washrooms. She had changed into high heels and a tangerine-colored blouse that clashed with all her best intentions. ~ Amor Towles

I'm willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn't somebody's thumb. ~ Amor Towles

The lights flickered. The bands laid down their instruments and the crowds made quiety for the door. ~ Amor Towles

I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012). ~ Sofia Navarro

Kisses are like cardiograms. They reveal how serious the illness is. ~ Rom Amor

The scientists call it human nature; which is just a fancy term for the God-given flaws we have no intention of giving back. ~ Amor Towles

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong. ~ Herman Melville

In a state of self-pity, one may retreat from the world in which one has been blessed to live. ~ Amor Towles

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
[Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.] ~ Ovid

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of
because the world has every intention of using it against you. ~ Amor Towles

as we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. ~ Amor Towles

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty. ~ Rom Amor

Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve- if not glacially, then at least gradually. ~ Amor Towles

As the sign over the cash register made clear, the three ways you could get your coffee at Chester's were sweetened, unsweetened, and somewhere else. ~ Amor Towles

But, of course, a thing is just a thing. [… ] the Count looked once more at what heirlooms remained and then expunged them from his heartache forever. ~ Amor Towles

But I don't simply want to learn the languages. I want to understand those who speak them. ~ Amor Towles

But Fate would not have the reputation it has if it simply did what it seemed it would do. ~ Amor Towles

Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations? ~ Amor Towles

For when life makes it impossible for a man to pursue his dreams, he will connive to pursue them anyway. ~ Amor Towles

From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time. Such is the fate of iron ore. ~ Amor Towles

I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord. ~ Amor Towles

A king fortifies himself with a castle," observed the Count, "a gentleman with a desk." As ~ Amor Towles

Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard. ~ Amor Towles

Here they resided, two worldviews separated only by Fifth Avenue, facing off until the end of time or the end of Manhattan, whichever came first. ~ Amor Towles

And this must be especially so, when those with newfound power are men who distrust any form of hesitation or nuance, and who prize self-assurance above all. For ~ Amor Towles

In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without mystery or menace or magic. ~ Amor Towles

Well, if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better for the job. ~ Amor Towles

Life, I believe, is not about always doing the right thing or never having problems but about learning and about finding ways to fix problems that come your way. ~ Ben Amor

Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end. ~ Juls Amor

You can't be the only superhero around here. I can do that too. – Hope Danielles ~ Dulce Amor Soriano

- Did Eve know? About you and Anne, I mean.
He shook his head wanly. The very definition of wanly. The apotheosis of wanly. ~ Amor Towles

Now, when a man has been underestimated by a friend, he has some cause for taking offense - since it is our friends who should overestimate our capacities. ~ Amor Towles

In fact, if Paris had not been seated next to Helen when he dined in the court of Menelaus, there never would have been a Trojan War." A ~ Amor Towles

The principle here is that a new generation owes a measure of thanks to every member of the previous generation. Our ~ Amor Towles

The Countess was of a mind that dinner should provide one with respite from life's trials and tribulations. Thus, she could not countenance discussions of religion, politics, or personal sorrows at her table. ~ Amor Towles

If only I were there and she were here," she sighed. And there, thought the Count, was a suitable plaint for all mankind. ~ Amor Towles

He looked like a man who had gained confidence through exposure to a hostile environment; like one who no longer owed anything to anyone. ~ Amor Towles

The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
[Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.] ~ Juvenal

Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They are not quick to envy or take offense. ~ Amor Towles

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which. ~ Amor Towles

For standing at the edge of his table was the young girl with the penchant for yellow - studying him with that unapologetic interest peculiar to children and dogs. Adding ~ Amor Towles

Most people have more needs than wants. That's why they live the lives they do. But the world is run by those whose wants outstrip their needs. ~ Amor Towles

he had decided after careful consideration to join a monastery and take an eternal vow of silence. Immediately. Without a moment's delay. Or, as soon as they'd had lunch. "Do ~ Amor Towles

While the splendors that elude us in youth are likely to receive our casual contempt in adolescence and our measured consideration in adulthood, they forever hold us in their thrall. ~ Amor Towles

Because the Bolsheviks, who were so intent upon recasting the future from a mold of their own making, would not rest until every last vestige of his Russia had been uprooted, shattered, or erased. Returning ~ Amor Towles

Who would have imagined," he said, "when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had just become the luckiest man in all of Russia. ~ Amor Towles

Before one travels abroad, it is best to have a simple, heartwarming soup from home, so that one can recall it fondly should one ever happen to feel a little ~ Amor Towles

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish. ~ Amor Towles

In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature. ~ Amor Towles

Invariably dressed in black, the Countess was one of those dowagers whose natural natural independence of mind, authority of age, and impatience with the petty made her the ally of all irreverent youth. ~ Amor Towles

Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did everybody write the Aeneid?" She ~ Amor Towles

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us ... then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place. ~ Amor Towles

(Lest you have forgotten, it is quite excruciating to hammer the back of your thumb. It inevitably prompts a hopping up and down and the taking of the Lord's name in vain.) But ~ Amor Towles

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration - and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them ~ Amor Towles

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way. ~ Amor Towles

Perhaps it is inescapable that when our lives are in flux, despite the comfort of our beds, we are bound to keep ourselves awake grappling with anxieties - no matter how great or small, how real or imagined. ~ Amor Towles

It was a marriage of two minds, of two metropolitan spirits tilting as gently and inescapably toward the future as paper whites tilt toward the sun. And ~ Amor Towles

Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive, a little imprecise, until now. ~ Amor Towles

It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life," he began, "that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces. ~ Amor Towles

Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box. . . ." Nina ~ Amor Towles

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. ~ Lauren Oliver

Life is every bit as devious as Death. It too can wear a hooded coat. It too can slip into town, lurk in an alley, or wait in the back of a tavern. ~ Amor Towles