De Vizia Quartu Quotes

#1. One summer when Carol was attending day camp, Greta had an affair with a man named Mel Carter. He was an Eastern publicity representative for a film studio, and often instructed dinner parties to which we went in those days with accounts of the movies' coming of age. 'We have a picture coming up,' he said once, 'in which a character says "son of a bitch." Lots of exciting things are happening. Still, it's only a beginning. Much remains to be done. #Quote by Peter De Vries

#2. If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with a comment, of the various deaths of men: he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live. - Michel de Montaigne, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die #Quote by Paul Kalanithi

#3. It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#4. When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#5. Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards. #Quote by Denis De Rougemont

#6. Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. #Quote by Jean De La Fontaine

#7. Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#8. Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."
-Piter De Vries #Quote by Frank Herbert

#9. Socialism is submission of the masochistic masses to the will of the sadistic elites. #Quote by A.E. Samaan

#10. born to avenge my sex and to dominate yours #Quote by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

#11. The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs. #Quote by Frans De Waal

#12. It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#13. There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#14. I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right. #Quote by Jorge Ramos

#15. Anyway, she sings like a mad tropical bird, and it's just a fondue of molten wanting and grieving and the sadness of the large naked swinging breasts and soft olive skin and everything that you wish you could remember and feel and know. #Quote by Nicholson Baker

#16. Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes

#17. O my darling books…how dear to me are they all! For have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all! It seems as if, by long and sweet companionship, you had become part of myself. #Quote by Antoine Issac, Baron Silvestre De Sacy

#18. Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds? #Quote by Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#19. Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several
from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#20. It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they should.... Until the whole atrocious system of herding working people in close-built cities, by way of making them serviceable cogwheels in the capitalistic machine for grinding out rent and profit, comes to an end, the physical education of children will remain at best a pathetic compromise. #Quote by Voltairine De Cleyre

#21. Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously. #Quote by Lee De Forest

#22. Our self-awareness impresses itself on us so cogently, as individuals and as a species, that we cannot imagine ourselves out of existence, even though for hundreds of millions of years humans played no part in the flow of life on the planet. When Teilhard de Chardin wrote, "The phenomenon of Man was essentially foreordained from the beginning," he was speaking from the depth of individual experience, which we all share, as much as from religious philosophy. Our inability to imagine a world without Homo sapiens has a profound impact on our view of ourselves; it becomes seductively easy to imagine that our evolution was inevitable. And inevitability gives meaning to life, because there is a deep security in believing that the way things are is the way they were meant to be. #Quote by Richard E. Leakey

#23. The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The real question is whether it's harder for the people in this audience to succeed be they extraordinary, average, or below average. If it is, and I think it obvious that it is, then that's untenable in a country that purports to provide equal opportunity for all. Now of course you'll dispute my claim that it is more difficult to succeed for them. You say the battle's over. I say not only is it not over but you yourself are stationed on the frontline of the battle and have been all these years. This room and the criminal justice system as a whole is the frontline. This is where modern-day segregation lives on. #Quote by Sergio De La Pava

#24. So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested. #Quote by Alan De Jager

#25. Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature? #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#26. We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at. #Quote by Guy De Maupassant

#27. Listen, dis foreign TV channels dey spoil de image of our country. Dese white stations dey make billions of dollars to sell your war and blood to de world ... We no bad like dis. OK, why dem no dey show corpses of deir white people during crisis for TV? Abi, people no dey kill for America or Europe?"
"You dey speak grammar!" someone shouted. "Wetin concern us wid America and Europe? Abeg, give us cable TV."
"Remove dis toilet pictures!" said another.
"So our barracks be toilet now?" the police answered. "What an insult!"
"You na mad mad police," Monica said.
"Ok, cable TV no be for free anymore!" the police said.
"But it's our pictures we are watching on cable TV," Madam Aniema said. "Why should we pay you to see ourselves and our people?"
The police answered, "Because government dey complain say cable TV dey misrepresent dis religious crisis. #Quote by Uwem Akpan

#28. She wore her best dinner dress, made of silk dyed in a fashionable shade called bois de rose, a deep earthy pink that flattered her fair complexion. It was a severely simple style, with a low square-cut bodice and skirts pulled back tightly to reveal the shape of her waist and hips. #Quote by Lisa Kleypas

#29. - What were you thinking about, child?
- I was thinking of heaven.
- It's unnecessary for you to think of heaven: there's already enough to consider about earth. Are you tired of living, you who have barely been born?
- No, but everyone prefers heaven to earth.
- Well, not I. For since heaven, as well as earth, has been made by God, you may count on encountering up there the very same evils as here below. After your death, you will not be rewarded according to your deserts, for if injustices are done you on this earth (as you will find out later by experience) there is no reason why, in the next life, you will not be further wronged. The best thing for you to do is not think of God, and since it is refused you, to make your own justice. #Quote by Comte De Lautreamont

#30. The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#31. Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. #Quote by Barbara De Angelis

#32. Whatever is natural admits of variety. #Quote by Madame De Stael

#33. There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes

#34. Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#35. Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#36. I trust you," he said out loud after a while, whirling her so they didn't collide with another couple on the dance floor. "Even if we don't work out, I trust you to be careful with me. I'm a little more fragile than I look, I'm afraid. #Quote by Thea De Salle