Viveros De Coyoacan Quotes

Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. ~ Charles De Montesquieu

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. ~ Peter De Vries

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity. ~ Willem De Kooning

Only those who are color blind speak of black and white. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right. ~ Oscar De La Renta

Clair de Lune," a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide. The music slinks and rises and settles back to earth, ~ Anthony Doerr

I believe that the clue to his mind is to be found in his unusual powers of continuous concentrated
introspection. A case can be made out, as it also can with Descartes, for regarding him as an accomplished
experimentalist. Nothing can be more charming than the tales of his mechanical contrivances when he was a
boy. There are his telescopes and his optical experiments, These were essential accomplishments, part of his
unequalled all-round technique, but not, I am sure, his peculiar gift, especially amongst his contemporaries.
His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had
seen straight through it. I fancy his pre-eminence is due to his muscles of intuition being the strongest and
most enduring with which a man has ever been gifted. Anyone who has ever attempted pure scientific or
philosophical thought knows how one can hold a problem momentarily in one's mind and apply all one's
powers of concentration to piercing through it, and how it will dissolve and escape and you find that what
you are surveying is a blank. I believe that Newton could hold a problem in his mind for hours and days and
weeks until it surrendered to him its secret. Then being a supreme mathematical technician he could dress it
up, how you will, for purposes of exposition, but it was his intuition which was pre-eminently extraordinary
- 'so happy in his conjectures', said De Morgan, 'as ~ John Maynard Keynes

We laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. ~ Gijs De Vries

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing. ~ Remy De Gourmont

I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life. ~ Olivia De Havilland

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change ~ Barbara De Angelis

He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions. ~ Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

Saying is one thing and doing is another ~ Michel De Montaigne

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I grew up in the United States. ~ Dominique De Villepin

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Yet whatever her enthusiasm for independence, with time Chloe nevertheless began leaving things behind. Not toothbrushes or pairs of shoes, but pieces of herself. It began with language, with Chloe leaving me her way of saying not ever instead of never, and of stressing the be of before, or of saying take care before hanging up the telephone. She in turn acquired use of my perfect and if you really think so. Habits began to leak between us: I acquired Chloe's need for total darkness in the bedroom, she followed my way of folding the newspaper, I took to wandering in circles around the sofa to think a problem through, she acquired a taste carpet. ~ Alain De Botton

The praise of the wise few is more important than the mockery of the foolish many, ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

...this, he thinks, is the true curve of the world - now I glimpse it: all things are blended under the surface like the mass of us were blended in the water, it's the separateness of skin and rock and mind that is the great illusion. We are not discrete; we are not solid. People and things and even cities are meant to flow together, they are meant to connect, and this is why we're always full of longing, the way I long for the girl, and the girl longs for truth, and the truth longs for volume, and volume longs for people to hear it, and people long for - what? - for everything, air, home, violence, chaos, beauty, hope, flight, sight, each other. Always, whether to stroke or maim, each other, above all. ~ Carolina De Robertis

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that. ~ Frans De Waal

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ~ Peter De Vries

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

I want to exude strength and intelligence. ~ Portia De Rossi

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe. ~ Tamara De Lempicka

To have a sexual history did not only imply one had made love to a succession of people, it also suggested one had either rejected or been rejected by these same bedroom companions. ~ Alain De Botton

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence. ~ William De Morgan

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life. ~ Blaise Pascal

Man should be ever better than he seems. ~ Aubrey De Vere

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again. ~ Guy De Maupassant

I may dispute, in favour of my chosen road, the road that someone else has taken. I may criticize the workings of his logic ... But I must respect the man, if he toils towards the same star. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

To say that everything is idea or that everything is spirit, is the same as saying that everything is matter or that everything is energy, for if everything is idea or spirit, just as my consciousness is, it is not plain why the diamond should not endure for ever, if my consciousness, because it is idea or spirit, endures forever. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time - inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. ~ Alain De Botton

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

From my earliest days I had a feeling that adventures lay in store for me. ~ Henrietta-Lucy Dillon De La Tour Du Pin Gouvernet

Your lips are like sugar
And your cheeks an apple
Your breasts are paradise
And your body a lily.
O, to kiss the sugar
To bite the apple
To reveal paradise
And open the lily. ~ Louis De Bernieres

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink. ~ Guy De Maupassant

We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other? ~ Max De Pree