Conjugacion De Ser Quotes

#1. Vivimos descubriendo y olvidando
esa dulce costumbre de la noche.
Hay que mirarla bien. Puede ser última.

(Our life is spent discovering and forgetting
that gentle habit of the night.
Take a good look. It could be the last.) #Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

#2. The wish to be elected cannot be more important than the wish to do the right thing. #Quote by Victor Bello Accioly

#3. The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew. #Quote by W.G. Sebald

#4. I hate pretty. It's a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty. #Quote by Oscar De La Renta

#5. It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#6. Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#7. Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#8. O tyrant love, when held by you,
We may to prudence bid adieu.
[Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.] #Quote by Jean De La Fontaine

#9. The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#10. How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them? #Quote by Alain De Botton

#11. Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something. #Quote by Jean De La Fontaine

#12. What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#13. Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. #Quote by Marie De Gournay

#14. No amount of logic can usually move a battered woman, so persuasion requires emotional leverage, not statistics or moral arguments ... I have seen their fear and resistance firsthand ... I believe it is critical for a woman to view staying as a choice, for only then can leaving be viewed as a choice and an option. #Quote by Gavin De Becker

#15. It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear. #Quote by Baden Powell De Aquino

#16. Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#17. Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God. #Quote by Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

#18. The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. #Quote by Charles De Gaulle

#19. You can't de-stress by stressing some more. #Quote by Tiisetso Maloma

#20. Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive. #Quote by Madame De Stael

#21. This is the violence that captures our fear and attention, even though only 20 percent of all homicides are committed by strangers. The other 80 percent are committed by people we know, so I'll focus on those we hire, those we work with, those we fire, those we date, those we marry, those we divorce. #Quote by Gavin De Becker

#22. In art one idea is as good as another. #Quote by Willem De Kooning

#23. experienced in the things of the world, everything that has some difficulty about it seems to thee impossible; but time will pass, as I said before, and I will tell thee some of the things I saw down there which will make thee believe what I have related now, the truth of which admits of neither reply nor question. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#24. [M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short ... there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin. #Quote by Joseph De Maistre

#25. If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#26. It is not a matter of approaching a fixed limit: absolute Knowledge or the happiness of man or the perfection of beauty; all human effort would then be doomed to failure, for with each step forward the horizon recedes a step; for man it is a matter of pursuing the expansion of his existence and of retrieving this very effort as an absolute. Science #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#27. He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#28. What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#29. We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#30. But this is a general objection of the sceptical sort to all miracles of whatever kind, and leadeth anon into the quagmire of arguments about Free Will. The Adept will do better to rely upon The Book of the Law , which urgeth constantly to action. Even rash action is better than none, by that Light; let the Magician then argue that his folly is part of the natural order which worketh all so well.
- Liber DCXXXIII De Thaumaturgia #Quote by Aleister Crowley

#31. I have come to serve you with a warning, Diana Bishop. Relationships between witches and vampires are forbidden. You must leave this house and no longer associate with Matthew de Clermont or any of his family. If you don't, the Congregation will take whatever steps are necessary to preserve the covenant. #Quote by Deborah Harkness

#32. Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed? #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#33. [T]ruly grand and powerful theories [ ... ] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [ ... ] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo . You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly. #Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

#34. The prostitute is the sum of all types of feminine slavery at once. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#35. For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#36. We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need - but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need - within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#37. Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. #Quote by Frans De Waal

#38. The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes