Roberval De Almeida Quotes

Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it. ~ Madame De Pompadour

We live forever; but they don't come back. ~ Anne Rice

What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons. ~ Alice Weaver Flaherty

To lovers out there....

Pregnancy is the main reason why most couples are married today. Yet every day they ask themselves why they are not happily married, forgetting love was not the main reason for their marriage. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us. ~ Jacques Audiard

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. ~ Honore De Balzac

It is in the moment when we are thinking most clearly that we are closest to madness. ~ Pablo De Santis

Life is a perennial teacher, especially when the subject is death. ~ Pablo De Santis

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer. ~ Madame De Stael

I caught a glimpse of my face in the mirror as we glided p. I looked as eroded as the groaning lift. What had happened to the fresh-faced belle from Boston, Mass.? The woman who stared back at me was at the dreaded age between forty-five and fifty, that no-man's land of sag, oncoming wrinkle, and stealthy approach of menopause.
"I hate this elevator, too," I said grimly.
Zoe grinned and pinched my cheek.
"Mom, even Gwyneth Paltrow would look like hell in that mirror."
I had to smile. That was such a Zoe-like remark. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. ~ Michel De Montaigne

You've won," Jack said softly. He looked at Mimi with such fiery hatred that she almost cowered at his words. But she was no weakling. She was Azrael, and Azrael did not cower, not even to Abbadon.
"I've won nothing," Mimi replied coldly. "Please remember that almost all of the Elders are dead, that the
Dark Prince is ascendant, and what is left of the Conclave is being led by a broken man who used to be the strongest of us all. And yet all you seem to care about, my darling, is that you no longer get to play with your little love toy."
Instead of answering her, Jack flew across the room and slapped her hard across the face, sending her
crashing to the floor. But before he could wield another blow, Mimi leaped up and slammed him against the window, knocking him completely out of breath.
"Is this what you want?" she hissed as she lifted him up by his shirt collar, his face turning a ghastly shade of red.
"Don't let me destroy you," he sneered.
"Just try, my sweet."
Jack twisted out of her grasp and flipped her over, kicking her down the length of the room. She sprung up with her hands clenched, her nails sharp as claws, and fangs bared. They met halfway in the air, and Jack put a hand on her throat and began to squeeze. But she scratched at his eyes and wrenched her body so that she was rolling on top of him, her sword at his throat, with the upper hand.
SUBMIT. Mimi sent.
NEVER. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Yes, yes, of course I love you,' the flower said to him at last. 'You have no idea - which is my fault. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

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

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it. ~ Jules De Goncourt

Nothing is given so profusely as advice. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster. ~ Carlos Drummond De Andrade

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box. ~ Sergio De La Pava

Silence - the applause of real and durable impressions - was broken by no one; each respected in the other the thoughts he felt to be the same as his own. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. ~ Christian De Portzamparc

The Marquis de Palancy, his head turned sideways on his craning neck, his great round eye glued to the glass of his monocle, moved slowly around in the transparent gloom and appeared no more to see the public in the stalls than a fish that drifts by, unaware of the crowd of curious visitors, behind the glass wall of an aquarium. Occasionally he paused, venerable, wheezy and moss-covered, and the onlooker could not have told whether he was unwell, asleep, swimming, spawning or simply taking breath. ~ Marcel Proust

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking. ~ Ferran Adria

Goods which are not shared are not goods. ~ Fernando De Rojas

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us. ~ Luc De Clapiers

By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves. ~ Eugenio Maria De Hostos

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. ~ Alain De Botton

How narrow is the gate and strait is the way that leadeth to life, and few there are that find it!6 are words of our Lord. 8. The narrow gate ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Old fools are greater fools than young ones. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Fear is a strong instrument of power, brother, extremely strong, in fact. If you pluck the right strings the population stays docile, concentrates on idiotic rubbish and doesn't complain about the things that are really important, like freedom of expression and thought and other fundamental human rights. ~ Anders De La Motte

I love Frida Kahlo. ~ Paz De La Huerta

Claire was de rigeuer even in disgrace. ~ Tracy Anne Warren

There's more to life than just surviving ... but ... sometimes just surviving is all you get ~ Charles De Lint

Love reinvents our needs with unique speed. My impatience with the customs ritual indicated that Chloe, who I had not known existed a few hours ago, had already acquired the status of a craving. I felt I would die if I missed her outside – die for the sake of someone who had only entered my life at eleven thirty that morning. ~ Alain De Botton

At the time, the question of woman's emancipation was of great interest to reformers. For the nihilist the issues were regarding work and sexual freedom. Because a woman's passport (which was used for general travel and not just travel abroad) was legally controlled by men - a father, or husband, had ultimate control of a woman's life. The nihilists solved this problem by having 'fictitious' marriages. This allowed for an emancipation of women de jure if not de facto. This resulted in women having the freedom of mobility to pursue some academic pursuits (which were curtailed during the White Terror) and some enterprise. Finally, the nihilists adopted the credo that adultery was a natural, and even desirable trait, in contrast to the spirit of their time, or their own cultural composition (i.e. they were prudes). ~ Anonymous

Yeah, well, if it wasn't your birthday and I wasn't so madly in love with you- his voice trailed off ... ~ Gretchen De La O

I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear "no," and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject. ~ Gavin De Becker

It's funny how your relationship with your own looks changes when you go weeks without seeing yourself. None of us really knows what we look like after all. In that nanosecond it takes for a mirror to give our faces back to us our mind has already done all sorts of perverse rearranging. ~ Nina De Gramont