Aimez La Quotes

#1. We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#2. oo-la: noun. That state of awesomeness. It is when your life is balanced and growing in the seven key areas of life; the 7 F's of Oola (fitness, finance, family, field, faith, friends, and fun). #Quote by Dave Braun

#3. A real panic took hold of me. I didn't know where I was going. I ran along the docks, turned into the deserted streets in the Beauvoisis district; the houses watched my flight with their mournful eyes. I repeated with anguish: Where shall I go? where shall I go? Anything can happen. Sometimes, my heart pounding, I made a sudden right about turn: what was happening behind my back? Maybe it would start behind me and when I would turn around, suddenly, it would be too late. As long as I could stare at things nothing would happen: I looked at them as much as I could, pavements, houses, gaslights; my eyes went rapidly from one to the other, to catch them unawares, stop them in the midst of their metamorphosis. They didn't look too natural, but I told myself forcibly: this is a gaslight, this is a drinking fountain, and I tried to reduce them to their everyday aspect by the power of my gaze. Several times I came across barriers in my path: the Cafe des Bretons, the Bar de la Marine. I stopped, hesitated in front of their pink net curtains: perhaps these snug places had been spared, perhaps they still held a bit of yesterday's world, isolated, forgotten. But I would have to push the door open and enter. I didn't dare; I went on. Doors of houses frightened me especially. I was afraid they would open of themselves. I ended by walking in the middle of the street.
I suddenly came out on the Quai des Bassins du Nord. Fishing smacks and small yachts. I put my foot on a ring set in th #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Jane,' she said, climbing down from the chair. 'Remember last year when I built that model wind tower for you and you wrote those poems for me?'
And you said you'd never switch homework assignments with me again.'
For good reason. My teacher had a hard time believing I wrote Tra-la the joy of tulips blooming, Ha-ha the thrill of bumblebees zooming. I'm alive and I dance, I'm alive though death is always looming. When I finally convinced her that I had, she asked me if I needed to talk to the school counselor. #Quote by Jeanne Birdsall

#5. In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way of life with consumer entincements, introducing them to the urbane pleasures of hot spas and fine dining, encouraging them to wear togas and speak Latin. #Quote by Catharine Arnold

#6. I, myself, searched for Sham-bha-la for eleven years.
I am perhaps a little wiser than I was, but it may be I am only
lazy and afraid. At any rate, it seems to me a waste of energy
to try to learn what is beyond my understanding. I don't even
understand my own religion. How shall I understand that of
individuals whose thinking is said to comprehend all religions
and philosophies and all the problems of the human race? #Quote by Talbot Mundy

#7. Tonight the world is yours, as am I. #Quote by Melissa De La Cruz

#8. She was still loping around on all fours, her fists blue-white from the strain. As if she were holding a secret tight to the ground. Sister Maria de la Guardia would sigh every time she saw her. "Caramba!" She'd sit down with Mirabella and pry her fingers apart. "You see?" she'd say softly, again and again. "What are you holding on to? Nothing, little one. Nothing. #Quote by Karen Russell

#9. In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny. #Quote by Anna Friel

#10. If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#11. Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which every schoolboy has encountered before he's in long pants. #Quote by Paul La Farge

#12. I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable. #Quote by La Monte Young

#13. She had to be honest. And this was where the truth hurt. She wanted to see Jack Force again. But it was agony #Quote by Melissa De La Cruz

#14. So to avoid the twin dangers of nostalgia and despairing bitterness, I'll just say that in Cartagena we'd spend a whole month of happiness, and sometimes even a month and a half, or even longer, going out in Uncle Rafa's motorboat, La Fiorella, to Bocachica to collect seashells and eat fried fish with plantain chips and cassava, and to the Rosary Islands, where I tried lobster, or to the beach at Bocagrande, or walking to the pool at the Caribe Hotel, until we were mildly burned on our shoulders, which after a few days started peeling and turned freckly forever, or playing football with my cousins, in the little park opposite Bocagrande Church, or tennis in the Cartagena Club or ping-pong in their house, or going for bike rides, or swimming under the little nameless waterfalls along the coast, or making the most of the rain and the drowsiness of siesta time to read the complete works of Agatha Christie or the fascinating novels of Ayn Rand (I remember confusing the antics of the architect protagonist of The Fountainhead with those of my uncle Rafael), or Pearl S. Buck's interminable sagas, in cool hammocks strung up in the shade on the terrace of the house, with a view of the sea, drinking Kola Roman, eating Chinese empanadas on Sundays, coconut rice with red snapper on Mondays, Syrian-Lebanese kibbeh on Wednesdays, sirloin steak on Fridays and, my favourite, egg arepas on Saturday mornings, piping hot and brought fresh from a nearby village, Luruaco, where they had the best #Quote by Héctor Abad Faciolince

#15. To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#16. Magicians needed sorrow. And deep sorrow existed only because of love. #Quote by Gita Trelease

#17. To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#18. Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.] #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#19. The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#20. The secret to consciously dating is letting your heart be your guide. #Quote by Amy Leigh Mercree

#21. I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick? #Quote by Billie Joe Armstrong

#22. If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#23. Hoo-kay, Marnie thought. Whoever this guy was, he'd caught the express train from la-la land and hopped off at weirdsville. And now he was looking around for the platform for his connection to loonytown. #Quote by Elizabeth Bevarly

#24. The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#25. There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#26. Before falling to the ground, the rain has touched the sky. (Avant de tomber au sol, La pluie a touché le ciel) #Quote by Charles De Leusse

#27. We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#28. There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should. #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#29. Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the spirit of love, as I shall show in the explanation of the following verse. #Quote by San Juan De La Cruz

#30. If I'm feeling in a naughty mood, I'll steal some of Mama's Creme De La Mer. If I'm feeling in a very naughty mood, I'll steal some of Daddy's Creme De La Mer. On the whole though, I'm very low maintenance. #Quote by Amber Le Bon

#31. The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#32. I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard. #Quote by Luke Scott

#33. L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est, ne roule que sur des choses si simples. I have come to esteem the universe more now that I know it resembles a watch; it is surprising that the order of nature, as admirable as it is, only runs on such simple things. #Quote by Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#34. People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#35. False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error. #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#36. 237. - No one should be praised for his goodness if he has not strength enough to be wicked. All other goodness is but too often an idleness or powerlessness of will. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#37. When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#38. And I don't give a cow's dick what Hume said, science rules! #Quote by Sergio De La Pava

#39. It is not self defining but by You #Quote by Jean-Marie De La Trinite

#40. There are few good women who do not tire of their role. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#41. The mind is always the patsy of the heart. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld