Stanze Per La Quotes

Sei la luce della mia vita." (You are the light of my life) he whispered softly. Declan steadied his partner. He was getting pretty damn good at Italian, "La mia luce brilla solo per te." (My light shines only for you.) ~ Isobel Starling

Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share. ~ Suzanne La Follette

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV. ~ Damian Lewis

I am a Broadway theatre guy ... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons ~ Jeremy Jordan

You cannot have the testimony unless you first endure the test. ~ Angelique La Fon-Cox

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand ... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me ... What an unattractive person La Sand is ... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it. ~ Frederic Chopin

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Nocturnă

Uitarea venea... a venit.
O lacrimă cade jos, totul tace,
Lampa obosită a clipit,
Orice obiect atins şopteşte: lasă-mă-n pace...

De-acum...
Auzi, ploaia plânge pe drum
Pe un adânc tumult,
Pe urma unui mic pantof într-un parc
de demult...

Adorm... ascult...
Afară, la fereastră, toamna a spus:
- Of!

Nocturne

Oblivion comes . . . came.
A tear falls; total silence,
The tired lamp twinkles,
Every touched thing whispers, let me alone.

Now...
Listen, outside the rain sheds its tears ―
A serious dispute centers on
A scrap of a small shoe in an old park . . .

I sleep . . . I listen . . .
Outside a window, autumn says:
Oh! ~ George Bacovia

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left. ~ Tom Jones

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. ~ Sergio De La Pava

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain. ~ Walter De La Mare

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking
but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression. ~ La Meri

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

And also, to encompass the madness within, let us reach forth our minds. ~ Rae La Rae

Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical. ~ Greg Ginn

I want to stay here and think about the secret door.'
'You can think about it on the way. That's the beautiful thing about the secret door. You can open it anywhere, any time.'
In later years, the court ladies often laughed behind their fans at the Dauphin, saying cruelly that he could spend a whole day tapping his cane against his foot and staring into space. I knew, though, that he was building castles in the air. ~ Kate Forsyth

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Have you ever seen a germ?" Aunt Gertrude asked without waiting for Eliza's reply. "Neither have I, yet I have no doubt they exist, because I have seen their effects on the body. Likewise I have never 'seen' love, yet I have witnessed again and again its transformative effect on human beings. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation. ~ Claude De La Colombiere

Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

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

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Any meal at the front was an exercise in war-time ingenuity and devotion of the lower classes for their officers. The Petite Marmite a la Thermit was from beef-broth cubes, the tinned Canadian salmon was called Saumon de Tin A & Q Sauce. The Epaule d'Agneau Wellington, N.Z. was army ration lamb, and the terrine of foie gras aux truffes was a can of foie gras that I had bought from the French commanding general. There was a salad of fresh lettuce from somewhere (no one asked in what or whose fertilizer it had been grown in since we would all soon be dead anyway) and the Macedoine de Fruits a la Quatre Bas was a can of mixed fruit. Then fresh strawberries soaked in Cognac. All the usual wines starting with an amontillado, Pommery Extra Sec, Chateau Steenworde Claret, Graham's Five Crowns Port, Bisquit Dubouche Grande Champagne Cognac, Brandy and a Waterloo Cup. ~ Jeremiah Tower

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tango has invited me to play with them. ~ Fred Armisen

All my work will explode inside my body, each fragment of my anatomy will acquire a life of its own, outside mine, Humberto won't exist, only these monsters, the despot who imprisoned me at La Rinconada to force me to invent him, Ines's honey complexion, Brigida's death, Iris Mateluna's hysterical pregnancy, the saintly girl who was never beatified, Humberto Penaloza's father pointing out Don Jeronimo dressed up to go to the Jockey Club, and your benign, kind hand, Mother Benita, that does not and will not let go of mine, and your attention fixed on these words of a mute, and your rosaries, the Casa's La Rinconada as it once was, as it is now, as it was afterwards, the escape, the crime, all of it alive in my brain, Peta Ponce's prism refracting and confusing everything and creating simultaneous and contradictory planes, everything without ever reaching paper, because I always hear voices and laughter enveloping and tying me up. ~ Jose Donoso

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio. ~ Joy Behar

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

If it ain't sugar it ain't sweet. ~ Sonya La McCllough

The depth of talent in Israel is just spectacular. I was very excited by it because when you cast in LA, you tend to see a lot of the same faces on lists for various parts. ~ Tim Kring

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld