Fauve De Bretagne Quotes

#1. We are living through deeply anxious days and if we are to relieve our own anxiety we must diagnose its cause #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#2. What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you ... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates. #Quote by Marquis De Sade

#3. I didn't study music. I literally lived it, #Quote by Paco De Lucia

#4. Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#5. The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#6. Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#7. I am poor - you are my riches; dark - you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it is a contradiction that he can own something who does not own himself. I am happy as a child who is neither able to own anything nor allowed to. I own nothing, for I belong only to you; I am not, I have ceased to be, in order to be yours."

- Johannes De Silentio, from_Either/Or_ #Quote by Søren Kierkegaard

#8. No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#9. I am always anxious. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#10. Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre. #Quote by Joan Littlewood

#11. Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then ... #Quote by Melissa De La Cruz

#12. The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. #Quote by Miguel De Unamuno

#13. Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is. #Quote by Aubrey De Grey

#14. A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives
all bear secret relations to our destinies. #Quote by Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

#15. Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed. #Quote by Guy De Maupassant

#16. It is an absolute perfection ... to get the very most out of one's individuality. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#17. One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufacturing. It is this trend that has led to the view that developed economies have become de-industrialized and that they are now effectively service economies. #Quote by Peter Dicken

#18. It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. #Quote by Thomas De Quincey

#19. When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war. #Quote by F. W. De Klerk

#20. Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. #Quote by Miguel De Unamuno

#21. Danger is like wine, it goes to your head. #Quote by Madame De Stael

#22. They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure. #Quote by Miguel De Icaza

#23. The epitome of empathy is said to be the capacity to look at the world through another's eyes. Though our glance on the planet is largely distorted by our crooked perspectives, we may nevertheless, with luck or agility, accede to a privileged glimpse of the view from another's shoes - and in the process claim to have been able, for a moment at least, to surmount our relativity. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#24. There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. #Quote by Robert De Niro

#25. The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#26. She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. #Quote by Marquis De Sade

#27. That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.] #Quote by Blaise Pascal

#28. The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. #Quote by Marie De France

#29. I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me ... to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#30. It has provided not only physical but also psychological sanctuary. It has been a guardian of identity. Over the years, its owners have returned from periods away and, on looking around them, remembered who they were. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#31. A spring sun was shining on the rue St. Honore, as I ran down the church steps. On one corner stood a barrow full of yellow jonquils, pale violets from the Riviera, dark Russian violets, and white Roman hyacinths in a golden cloud of mimosa. The street was full of Sunday pleasure-seekers. I swung my cane and laughed with the rest. Someone overtook and passed me. He never turned, but there was the same deadly malignity in his white profile that there had been in his eyes. I watched him as long as I could see him. His lithe back expressed the same menace; every step that carried him away from me seemed to bear him on some errand connected with my destruction.

I was creeping along, my feet almost refusing to move. There began to dawn in me a sense of responsibility for something long forgotten. It began to seem as if I deserved that which he threatened: it reached a long way back - a long, long way back. It had lain dormant all these. years: it was there though, and presently it would rise and confront me. But I would try to escape; and I stumbled as best I could into the rue de Rivioli, across the Place de la Concorde and on to the Quai. I looked with sick eyes upon the sun, shining through the white foam of the fountain, pouring over the backs of the dusky bronze river-gods, on the far-away Arc, a structure of amethyst mist, on the countless vistas of grey stems and bare branches faintly green. Then I saw him again coming down one of the chestnut alleys of the Cours #Quote by Robert W. Chambers

#32. Remember when you are about to do something great or big. Giving up is always the first and the easiest option.Don't fall for it, it wants to trap you from your brighter and better successful future. #Quote by De Philosopher DJ Kyos

#33. Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life. #Quote by Vincent De Paul

#34. Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#35. I have been informed about the death of Slobodan Milosevic. It is unfortunate and in many aspects unsatisfactory, given the countless victims of the Balkan wars, that justice now will not be able to run its course. #Quote by Jaap De Hoop Scheffer

#36. So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me. #Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville

#37. The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm. #Quote by Honore De Balzac