Psychologique De Couleur Quotes

The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room. ~ Jasper Fforde

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other. ~ Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are. ~ John Wooden

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out ... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone! ~ Anne Rice

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not of a family, there will be the need of a legislative action to remove the disparity. Obviously, when talking about people I refer to everyone [including homosexuals]. ~ Gianfranco Fini

Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting to become submissive adored objects. They do not suffer from the penis envy Freud postulated, but from power envy. ~ Mary Pipher

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Minor parties are, on the other hand, generally deficient in political faith. As they are not sustained or dignified by a lofty purpose, they ostensibly display the egotism of their character in their actions. They glow with a factitious zeal; their language is vehement, but their conduct is timid and irresolute. The means they employ are as wretched as the end at which they aim. Hence it arises that when a calm state of things succeeds a violent revolution, the leaders of society seem suddenly to disappear, and the powers of the human mind to lie concealed. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart. ~ Eugenie De Guerin

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying! ~ Portia De Rossi

I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Music revives the recollections it would appease. ~ Madame De Stael

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To love is to approach each other center to center. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

If you get one taste of that man, you will never go back to polos and khakis. That boy is going to rock your world. ~ Lisa De Jong

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. ~ Remy De Gourmont

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. ~ Charles De Gaulle

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self. ~ Edward De Bono

Love is the poetry of the senses! ~ Honore De Balzac

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. ~ Thomas De Quincey

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. ~ Comte De Lautreamont

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him. ~ Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fall
out that they would not much take with common and vulgar capacities, nor be very acceptable to the singular and excellent sort of men; the first would not understand them enough, and the last too much; and so they may hover in the middle region. ~ Michel De Montaigne

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

I was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: I have no comfort but in my absolute despair. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

I have always thought that if I had been allowed to read history more constantly, instead of losing my time in studies for which I had no aptness, I might ave made some figure in the world ~ Louis De Rouvroy Saint-Simon

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

We become innocent when we are unfortunate. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own? ~ Vincent De Paul

This was the first living creature I had ever loved passionately, because he returned my affection. My love for the animal was, no doubt, exaggerated and ridiculous.I has a vague idea that in some way we were brothers, both lost in life, both lonely and defenseless. He never left me,slept at foot of my bed, was fed in the dining-room in spite of my parents' protests and he came with me on my solitary walks. ~ Guy De Maupassant

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

Men," said the little prince, "set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there. ~ Deborah Kara Unger

Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage. ~ Aldous Huxley

privation is the cause of appetite ~ Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz