Noite De Natal Quotes

For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than culture whose effect is the emancipation of reflective consciousness from the repetitious constraints of the species. What this means especially is that man is given the possibility of going beyond himself and transforming. In other words, to ensure that each "super-nature" obtained is simply a step towards another "super-nature." Now this project is the equivalent of making man a kind of god - allowing him to participate in the Divine - a perspective the Bible depicts as an "abomination. ~ Alain De Benoist

Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both. ~ Yvonne De Carlo

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need. ~ Dominique De Menil

Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure. ~ Alan Bradley

I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

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

For a number of years he had lived, eaten, laughed, loved, hoped, like everyone else. And for him it was over, over for good. A life! A few days, and then nothing! You're born, you grow up, you're happy, you wait, then you die. Goodbye! Man or woman, you'll never return to this earth! And yet each of us bears within him the fierce, unrealizable longing for eternity, each of us is a kind of universe within the universe, and each of us soon vanishes completely into the dunghill of new organisms. Plants, animals, men, stars, worlds, everything quickens, then dies, in order to transform itself. And nothing ever returns, whether insect, man, or planet! ~ Guy De Maupassant

To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Jesse, you're not going to lose me. I had the situation totally under control." Sort of. "But I have to say that after so many years of you keeping your feelings for me hidden out of propriety, it's really nice to hear you say all those things. Plus, it's emotionally healthy that you're letting them out this way. Keep unburdening yourself." I wrapped my arms around his neck. "What is it exactly, that you find so irresistible about me? Is it my magnetic personality? Or my emerald green eyes? Or maybe it's just my hot bod?" I felt something against my torso. "Oh, I'm getting the impression that it's my hot bod. ~ Meg Cabot

Every man is the child of his own deeds ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

it's unkind to do things that you wouldn't like other people to do to you - I mean - you know what I mean! ~ Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed]. ~ Rhys Ifans

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers. ~ Charles De Lint

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too. ~ Giada De Laurentiis

Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class. ~ James Laver

Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate. ~ Alain De Botton

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! ~ Pablo De Sarasate

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men. ~ Jules De Goncourt

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live. ~ Bill De Blasio

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself. ~ Honore De Balzac

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that. ~ Oscar De La Hoya

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soulmate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition: a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect because it bypasses the normal processes of reason. ~ Alain De Botton

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own
one of the heart, the other of the mind. ~ 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

I would rather be an authority on myself than on Cicero. ~ Michel De Montaigne