Onore De Balzak Quotes

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States. ~ Zack De La Rocha

To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Music fears nobody. And it refuses to be caged. Finally, ~ Timothee De Fombelle

About the nobles - not just de Cygne, all of them. They don't care. Just remember that. Do what you have to do with them, because they have the power. I don't know if they'll always have it, but they do now, and they'll have it as long as you live, my son. So don't ever go against them. But just remember, no matter what they say, don't ever trust them. Because they don't care about you, and they never will, because you're not one of them. He ~ Edward Rutherfurd

We love because we love. ~ Honore De Balzac

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may! ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

The logic of the heart is absurd ~ Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough. ~ Edward De Bono

I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador. ~ Felix De Weldon

There's no mystery to integrity. There's no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows. ~ John De Ruiter

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both. ~ Madame De Stael

Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to. ~ Joe Pesci

So through the eyes love attains the heart:
For the eyes are the scouts of the heart,
And the eyes go reconnoitering
For what it would please the heart to possess.
And when they are in full accord
And firm, all three, in the one resolve,
At that time, perfect love is born
From what the eyes have made welcome to the heart.
Not otherwise can love either be born or have commencement
Than by this birth and commencement moved by inclination.

By the grace and by command
Of these three, and from their pleasure,
Love is born, who its fair hope
Goes comforting her friends.
For as all true lovers
Know, love is perfect kindness,
Which is born - there is no doubt - from the heart and eyes.
The eyes make it blossom; the heart matures it:
Love, which is the fruit of their very seed. ~ Giraut De Bornelh, Troubador (1138–1215)

Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it. ~ Alain De Botton

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see. ~ Victoria De Los Angeles

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up. ~ Michel De Montaigne

When all shall fail us, then God will take care of us, and then all will not fail us since we shall have God. ~ Francis De Sales

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don't insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don't let me hear a word about the rest ~ Alfred De Vigny

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. ~ Alain De Botton

Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall one day have the felicity of seeing it established in our beloved country. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great. ~ Michel De Montaigne

You want to finish something when it's good. You don't want to be the last one at the party! ~ Emilie De Ravin

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. ~ Michel De Montaigne

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful. ~ Alain De Botton

See how small your are next to the mountains. Accept what is bigger that you and what you do not understand. The world may appear illogical to you, but it does not follow that it is illogical per se. Our life is not the measure of all things: consider sublime places a reminder of human insignificance and frailty. ~ Alain De Botton

You'll live. Only the best get killed. ~ Charles De Gaulle

The many troubles in your household will tend to your edification, if you strive to bear them all in gentleness, patience, and kindness. Keep this ever before you, and remember constantly that God's loving eyes are upon you amid all these little worries and vexations, watching whether you take them as He would desire. Offer up all such occasions to Him, and if sometimes you are put out, and give way to impatience, do not be discouraged, but make haste to regain your lost composure. ~ Francis De Sales

Nehra frowned. "Do you always run headlong into certain death?" "Sometimes he walks," Dariana said. "Occasionally he shuffles. Once I'm pretty sure I saw him amble into certain death." Nehra rolled her eyes. "You risk your lives on foolish odds. ~ Sebastien De Castell

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most. ~ Michel De Montaigne

[she] confessed her preference for trousers; every active woman likes low heels and sturdy materials. The significance of woman's attire is evident: it is decoration, and to be decorated means to be offered. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord. ~ Vincent De Paul

The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs. ~ Max De Pree

Literature isn't necessarily pleasant,' he said.

'But it is!' Lambert said. 'Even things that are sad become pleasant when they are done artistically.' He hesitated. 'Maybe pleasant isn't exactly the right word, but it'll do. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Good listeners are no less rare or important than good communicators. Here, too, an unusual degree of confidence is the key - a capacity not to be thrown off course by, or buckle under the weight of, information that may deeply challenge certain settled assumptions. Good listeners are unfussy about the chaos which others may for a time create in their minds; they've been there before and know that everything can eventually be set back in its place. The ~ Alain De Botton

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. ~ Michel De Montaigne

One may outwit another, but not all the others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld