Fugue De Nenin Quotes

#1. One is not born a woman, but becomes one. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#2. I get all tangled up in your ribbons. #Quote by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

#3. The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty. #Quote by Remy De Gourmont

#4. I've always been interested in the outsider. #Quote by Charles De Lint

#5. His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, Rest, rest, and rest again. #Quote by Walter De La Mare

#6. There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives, as they go up the staircase of a theatre, or think of going to the Bouffons, or of setting up a carriage; who are murderers in thought when dear ones, with the irresistable charm of innocence, hold up childish foreheads to be kissed with a 'Good-night, father!' Hourly they meet the gaze of eyes they would fain close forever, eyes that still open each morning to the light. . . God alone knows the number of those who are parricides in thought #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#7. He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#8. The stink came from the prison cubicle next door. Old Ben was in there and Ben was the dirtiest man alive. #Quote by Michael De Larrabeiti

#9. When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#10. Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? #Quote by Charles De Lint

#11. Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food #Quote by Guy De Maupassant

#12. The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me. #Quote by Charles De Lint

#13. She had sacrificed her love, but he would not sacrifice his. #Quote by Melissa De La Cruz

#14. Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature. #Quote by Ninon De L'Enclos

#15. Since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#16. There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone. #Quote by Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

#17. We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet. #Quote by Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#18. [To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes

#19. In those days we saw every sort of object as though it were one of those tiny handkerchiefs from which a conjuror can produce silk scarfs, streamers, flags, and yards of ribbon. A cup of coffee became a kaleidoscope in which we could spend ages watching the mutable reflections of ceiling or chandelier. #Quote by Simone De Beauvoir

#20. During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived. #Quote by David Roberts

#21. Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#22. we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#23. Passion is born deaf and dumb. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#24. Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. #Quote by Joseph De Maistre

#25. Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#26. No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth. #Quote by Agnes De Mille

#27. Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness. #Quote by Anthony De Mello

#28. In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration. #Quote by Aubrey De Grey

#29. What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well ... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for. #Quote by Poul Anderson

#30. Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college. #Quote by Matt De La Pena

#31. Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction. #Quote by Eamon De Valera

#32. The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate. #Quote by Luc De Clapiers

#33. I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#34. Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment for these sinners but bearding them? #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#35. But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. #Quote by Pierre De Fermat

#36. O love is to battle, if two kiss
the world changes, desires take flesh
thoughts take flesh, wings sprout
on the backs of the slave, the world is real
and tangible, wine is wine, bread
regains its savor, water is water,
to love is to battle, to open doors,
to cease to be a ghost with a number
forever in chains, forever condemned
by a faceless master;
the world changes
if two look at each other and see
Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated by Eliot Weinberger #Quote by Octavio Paz