Sybille De Selys Quotes

We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man's acts - and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can ever grow out of self interest. It is pleasanter to dream of those times of dedication, sacrifice, and heroism that used to be, and that have left honorable traces upon the earth. ~ Germaine De Stael

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A foolish man lives for himself, a wise man lives for a purpose. ~ Cosimo De Medici

To escape the distress caused by regret for the past or fear about the future, this is the rule to follow: leave the past to the infinite mercy of God, the future to His good Providence, give the present wholly to His love by being faithful to His grace. ~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

I can handle Evil, but I cannot handle Anticipation. ~ Gabbo De La Parra

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

Marry me." I said.
She lowered her teacup, shaking slightly, to the saucer. "Aren't you going to get down on one knee?"
I got down on one knee and took her hand.
"Will you marry me, Kate?"
You can't propose properly without a ring." She said.
I reached into my pocket and took out James Sanderson's ring, which I'd picked up off the floor of the Starclimber when we'd crash landed.
"That's a nice looking ring." said Kate with a grin.
"Cost a fortune." I said. "And now, for the third time. Kate de Vries, will you marry me?"
She leaned forward and took my face in her hands and kissed me.
"Yes," "Yes, and yes and yes. But it will probably be terrible."
"Probably," I agreed.
"Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other."
I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said. ~ Kenneth Oppel

Nunca se debe gatear, cuando se tiene el impulso de volar (Never crawl when the impulse is to fly) ~ Helen Keller

At present sinners banish the remembrance and thought of death, and thus seek for peace (although they never find it) by leading a life of sin; but when they shall be in the agonies of death, about to enter into eternity, "when distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace, and there will be none," then can they no longer fly from their evil conscience; they will seek peace, but what peace can be found by a soul laden with sins, which sting it like so many vipers? ~ Alfonso Maria De Liguori

This was the first time that he thoroughly felt and believed himself to be a knight-errant in reality and not merely in fancy, now that he saw himself treated in the same way as he had read of such knights being treated in days of yore. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most
people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It's how we make rules and why we obey
them. ~ Portia De Rossi

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. ~ Charles De Gaulle

Don't worry my love, we shall have our vengeance. I promise it. -Jack ~ Melissa De La Cruz

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It is a question of discipline," the little prince said to me later on. "When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. ~ Tom Verlaine

The memories of beautiful moments are magical. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. ~ Gijs De Vries

Necessity is a violent school-mistress. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. ~ Marquis De Sade

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. ~ Marquis De Sade

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Just because I loves you–
That's de reason why
Ma soul is full of color
Like de wings of a butterfly.

Just because I loves you
That's de reason why
Ma heart's a fluttering aspen leaf
When you pass by. ~ Langston Hughes

I set my genius to portray the pleasures of cruelty! These are no fickle, artificial delights, they began with man and with him they will die. ~ Comte De Lautreamont

If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive. ~ John De Ruiter

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes. ~ Paul De Kruif

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? / Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du NOUVEAU! (rough translation : Into the abyss
Heaven or Hell, what difference does it make? / To the depths of the Unknown to find the NEW!) ~ Charles Baudelaire

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd. ~ Bernard De Mandeville

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. ~ Edward De Bono

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love. ~ Giada De Laurentiis

I love you, you know," Mimi said. "You make me crazy, but God help me Jack, I do."
"I love you too," he replied. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them? ~ Vincent De Paul

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again. ~ Willem De Kooning