Postales De Buenas Quotes

Ana had experienced reactions like Ramon's in the mirrored salons of Sevilla society, in the waxed halls of the Convento de las Buenas Madres, on the streets of Cadiz and San Juan. It was a look that said, "I see you, but I deign not to speak to you." It said, "I see you but I do not share the high opinion you have of yourself." It said, "I see you but you're not who I want to see." It said, "To me, you don't exist. ~ Esmeralda Santiago

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there. ~ Francisco De Quevedo

But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor? ~ Guy De Maupassant

Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence. ~ Madame De La Fayette

It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones. ~ Maurice De Saxe

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion. ~ Oscar De La Renta

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. ~ Augustus De Morgan

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror. ~ Guy De Maupassant

The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant . ~ Anthony De Mello

Nothing of what you go through in life gets lost. Everything teaches, refines and empowers you. ~ Maria Teresa De Donato

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone. ~ Willem De Kooning

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state. ~ Honore De Balzac

Happy the age, happy the time, to which the ancients gave the name of golden, not because in that fortunate age the gold so coveted in this our iron one was gained without toil, but because they that lived in it knew not the two words "mine" and "thine"! ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

In fact living is dying. ~ Guy De Maupassant

The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation. ~ Josef Pieper

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves. ~ Charles De Lint

Authority is first and foremost based on reason. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters. ~ Luc De Clapiers

At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas. ~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Life's most beautiful moments come after the rain." -Beau Bennett ~ Lisa De Jong

A woman alone always seems a little unusual; it is not true that men respect women: they respect each other through their women - wives, mistresses, "kept" women; when masculine protection no longer extends over her, woman is disarmed before a superior caste that is aggressive, sneering, or hostile. As an "erotic perversion, ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Choosing a person to marry is hence just a matter of deciding exactly what kind of suffering we want to endure rather than of assuming we have found a way to skirt the rules of emotional existence. We will all by definition end up with that stock character of our nightmares, "the wrong person."

This needn't be a disaster, however. Enlightened romantic pessimism simply assumes that one person can't be everything to another. We should look for ways to accommodate ourselves as gently and as kindly as we can to the awkward realities of living alongside another fallen creature. There can only ever be a "good enough" marriage.

For this realization to sink in, it helps to have had a few lovers before settling down, not in order to have had a chance to locate "the right person," but in order to have had an ample opportunity to discover at first hand, and in many different contexts, the truth that there isn't any such a person; that everyone really is a bit wrong when considered from close up. ~ Alain De Botton

A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer. ~ Robert De Castella

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around. ~ Anthony De Mello

People who make no noise are dangerous. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. ~ Louis De Bernieres

Anyone I touch, I send back to the land from which he came. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy. ~ Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

One of the miracles of the airplane is that it plunges a man directly into the heart of mystery. You are a biologist studying, through your porthole, the human ant-hill, scrutinizing objectively those towns seated in their plain at the centre of their highways which go off like the spokes of a wheel and, like arteries, nourish them with the quintessence of the fields. A needle trembles on your manometer, and this green clump below you becomes a universe. You are the prisoner of a greensward in a slumbering park. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The artist by his work is known. ~ Francoise-Marguerite De Sevigne

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Who was the first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it must have been our father Adam. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is. ~ Peter De Vries

It follows that the more people we take to be our equals and compare ourselves to, the more people there will be to envy. ~ Alain De Botton

Truth is less complete in its utterance; it does not put everything on the outside; it allows us to see what is within. ~ Honore De Balzac