Metodolog A De La Quotes

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz ... a beautiful chaos. ~ Josephine De La Baume

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: "I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you." Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering. ~ Mazo De La Roche

Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes. ~ Ines De La Fressange

He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

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

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For, when the friendship is purely spiritual, the love of God grows with it; and the more the soul remembers it, the more it remembers the love of God, and the greater the desire it has for God; so that, as the one grows, the other grows also. For the spirit of God has this property, that it increases good by adding to it more good, inasmuch as there is likeness and conformity between them. But, when this love arises from the vice of sensuality aforementioned, it produces the contrary effects; for the more the one grows, the more the other decreases, and the remembrance of it likewise. If that sensual love grows, it will at once be observed that the soul's love of God is becoming colder, and that it is forgetting Him as it remembers that love; there comes to it, too, a certain remorse of conscience. And, on the other hand, if the love of God grows in the soul, that other love becomes cold and is forgotten; for, as the two are contrary to one another, not only does the one not aid the other, but the one which predominates quenches and confounds the other, and becomes strengthened in itself, as the philosophers say. Wherefore Our Saviour said in the Gospel: 'That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.' That is to say, the love which is born of sensuality ends in sensuality, and that which is of the spirit ends in the spirit of God and causes it to grow. This is the difference that exists between these two kinds of love, whereby we m ~ Juan De La Cruz

We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson ~ Gretchen De La O

You must live a very free life."
"Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!"
"Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but ... I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head."
De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere. ~ Sam Starbuck

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

One learned to take time to savor life, much as one took time to savor a good meal or glass of wine. The French called it "l'entente de la vie," the harmony of life. ~ David McCullough

Nana, how come we don't got a car?' 'Boy, what do we need a car for? We got a bus that breathes fire, and old Mr. Daniels, who always has a trick for you. ~ Matt De La Pena

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business ... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery. ~ Walter De La Mare

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You may be able to call up an entire
encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain
with no heart and no reasoning ~ Melissa De La Cruz

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Bet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased.
She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy.
The Empire Strikes Back," Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line.
The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That's not romantic!" Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls.
Au contraire, my dear, it's very romantic. The last scene, you know, when they're about to put Han in that freezing cryogenic chamber or whatever? Remember?"
Schuyler mmm-hmmmed.
And Leia leans over the ledge and says, 'I love you.'"
That's cheesy, not romatic," Schuyler argued, although she did like that part.
Let me explain. What's romantic is what Han says back. Remember what he says to her? After she says 'I love you'?"
Schuyler grinned. Maybe Oliver had a point. "Han says, 'I know.'"
Exactly," Oliver tapped the wheel. "He doesn't have to say anything so trite as 'I love you." Because that's already understood. And that's romantic. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

It is better to trust and face betrayal than to remain skeptical of everything and everybody. Your open heart is a gift. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life. ~ Ana De La Reguera

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. ~ Oscar De La Renta

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

One honor won is a surety for more. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost? ~ Jean De La Bruyere

And it was understood that Scottish Borderers did not take kindly to outside Wardens. The oustanding example was the unfortunate Frenchman, Anthony Darcy, the Sieur de la Bastie, who in 1516 was ill-advised enough to accept the Wardenry of all the Scottish Marches, with particular responsibility in the east. This was Hume country, and they regarded Darcy with "horrid resentment". He seems to have been a brave, honest and conscientious Warden, which no doubt rendered him all the more odious. The outcome was that the Humes finally caught up with him near Duns, cut off his head, and took it home in triumph, tied by its long locks to a saddle-bow. ~ George MacDonald Fraser

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly! ~ Jean De La Bruyere