Universidade De Coimbra Quotes

#1. No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. - Author: Antoine De Saint Exupery

#2. No nation has friends only interests. - Author: Charles De Gaulle

#3. Oh blessed tears, by which interior stains are washed away, and the flames of sin are quenched! Happy are those who weep thus, for they shall rejoice hereafter. By these tears, oh soul, discover your Bridegroom! Embrace him (whom) you desire; be inebriated with the river of delight; draw milk and honey from the breasts of his consolation. These tears and sighs are wondrous, precious gifts and consolations given you by your Spouse. Let these tears furnish drink for you; they are bread for you by day and by night, bread that surely strengthens the heart of man and is sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. - Author: Francisco De Osuna

#4. Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire. - Author: San Juan De La Cruz

#5. I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. - Author: Rebecca De Mornay

#6. The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one. - Author: Anthony De Mello

#7. And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that. - Author: Victor Borge

#8. I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home! - Author: Tatiana De Rosnay

#9. Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering - Author: Jancee Dunn

#10. When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back. - Author: Robert De Castella

#11. A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain. - Author: Barbara De Angelis

#12. So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee. - Author: Thomas De Quincey

#13. ...only poetry, exempt from all practical applications, permits one to have at its disposal, to a certain extent, the brilliance and suffocation that Marquis de Sade tried so indecently to provoke.`
Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess. Selected Writings 1927-1939, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2004, p. 93 - Author: Georges Bataille

#14. The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. CHARLES DE LINT - Author: Graham Joyce

#15. Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate. - Author: Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#16. Sometimes, sport is just plain pleasing to the eye, like watching La Belle France flit by on television during the Tour de France. I can do that for hours. - Author: George Vecsey

#17. Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, "Either I am much deceived,
or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are engaged in no very deep discourse." To which one of them, Heracleon the Megarean, replied: " 'Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb Ballo be spelt with a
double L, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives Cheirou and Beltiou, and the superlatives Cheiriotou and Beliotou, to knit their brows whilst discoursing of their science; but as to philosophical discourses, they always divert and cheer up those that entertain them, and never deject them or make them sad. - Author: Michel De Montaigne

#18. Children understand. - Author: Antoine De Saint Exupery

#19. There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient? - Author: Michel De Montaigne

#20. People who make no noise are dangerous. - Author: Jean De La Fontaine

#21. Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion. - Author: Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

#22. Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. - Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#23. The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair. - Author: Antoine De Saint Exupery

#24. Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality. - Author: Baron De Montesquieu

#25. Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge. - Author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#26. In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who made war against the cardinal; there was Spain, which made war against the king. Then, in addition to these concealed or public, secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, who made war upon everybody. The citizens always took up arms readily against thieves, wolves or scoundrels, often against nobles or Huguenots, sometimes against the king, but never against cardinal or Spain. It resulted, then, from this habit that on the said first Monday of April, 1625, the citizens, on hearing the clamor, and seeing neither the red-and-yellow standard nor the livery of the Duc de Richelieu, rushed toward the hostel of the Jolly Miller. When arrived there, the cause of the hubbub was apparent to all. - Author: Alexandre Dumas

#27. In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity. - Author: Alain De Botton

#28. We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge. - Author: Alain De Botton

#29. It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said. - Author: Luc De Clapiers

#30. Was it that these particular occult streets had been made, then hidden? Their names leaked as traps in an elaborate double-bluff, so that no one could go except those who knew that such
traps were actually destinations? Or were there really no streets there when the traps were set? Perhaps these cul-de-scas were residues, yawned into illicit existence when the atlases were drawn up by liars. - Author: China Mieville

#31. It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth. - Author: Alain De Botton