Loiros De Olhos Quotes

#1. It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#2. Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign.
De Cometis #Quote by Albertus Magnus

#3. I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust. #Quote by Marquis De Lafayette

#4. Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#5. He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form & not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume & all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe. #Quote by Remy De Gourmont

#6. The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change. #Quote by Anthony De Mello

#7. I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability #Quote by Peter De Vries

#8. What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar? #Quote by Alphonse De Lamartine

#9. The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening. #Quote by Tod Goldberg

#10. Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#11. When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. #Quote by Luc De Clapiers

#12. The despot subdues his subjects, some of them by means of others, and thus is he protected by those from whom, if they were decent men, he would have to guard against himself; just as, in order to split wood, one has to use a wedge of the wood itself. Such are his archers, his guards, his halberdiers; not that they do not suffer occasionally at his hands, but this riff-raff, abandoned alike by God and man, can be led to endure evil if permitted to commit it, not against him who exploits them, but against those who like themselves submit, but are helpless. #Quote by Etienne De La Boetie

#13. Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. #Quote by Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#14. In East Sussex, let us say, an old farm sleeps in sun-dapple, its oast-house with its cowls echoing the distant steeple of SS Andrew and Mary, Fletching, where de Montfort had prayed and Gibbon now sleeps out a sceptic's eternity. The Sussex Weald is quiet now, its bows and bowmen that did affright the air at Agincourt long dust. A Chalk Hill Blue spreads peaceable wings upon the hedge. Easter is long sped, yet yellow and lavender yet ornament the land, in betony and dyer's greenweed and mallows. An inquisitive whitethroat, rejoicing in man's long opening of the Wealden country, trills jauntily from atop a wall. #Quote by G.M.W. Wemyss

#15. Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading - retellings of the old stories (Mallory, White, Briggs), anecdotal collections and historical investigations of the stories' backgrounds - and then I stumbled upon the Tolkien books which took me back to Lord Dunsany, William Morris, James Branch Cabell, E.R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake and the like. I was in heaven when Lin Carter began the Unicorn imprint for Ballantine and scoured the other publishers for similar good finds, delighting when I discovered someone like Thomas Burnett Swann, who still remains a favourite.

This was before there was such a thing as a fantasy genre, when you'd be lucky to have one fantasy book published in a month, little say the hundreds per year we have now. I also found myself reading Robert E. Howard (the Cormac and Bran mac Morn books were my favourites), Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and finally started reading science fiction after coming across Andre Norton's Huon of the Horn. That book wasn't sf, but when I went to read more by her, I discovered everything else was. So I tried a few and that led me to Clifford Simak, Roger Zelazny and any number of other fine sf writers.

These days my reading tastes remain eclectic, as you might know if you've been following my monthly book review column in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. I'm as likely to read Basil Johnston as Stephen K #Quote by Charles De Lint

#16. We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires #Quote by Alfred De Vigny

#17. I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#18. Mitch waved his hand in front of his nose. "Christ almighty! What is that funk on you?"

Gwen smirked. "Eau de Grizzly. #Quote by Shelly Laurenston

#19. Mimi knew now what she had to do. To save their bond, to save themselves. She had to destroy Schuyler Van Alen. #Quote by Melissa De La Cruz

#20. True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. #Quote by Marquis De Sade

#21. The landlord replied he had no chickens, for the kites had stolen them. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#22. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#23. In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#24. Look for daily beauty. Let the splendor of life fill your senses. #Quote by Amy Leigh Mercree

#25. It may be that Japanese culture is not ego-based like Western culture: argument has often a strong ego base. The most likely explanation is that Japanese culture was not influenced by those Greek thinking idioms which were refined and developed by medieval monks as a means of proving heretics to be wrong. (p36) #Quote by Edward De Bono

#26. Ordinary citizens can encounter violence at their jobs to the point that homicide is now the leading cause of death for women in the workplace. #Quote by Gavin De Becker

#27. Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God. #Quote by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#28. Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me. #Quote by Jan De Bont

#29. Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. #Quote by Jean-Francois De La Harpe

#30. But I made an issue of the precise wording of the vows. I wanted liberalized ones, with no outmoded Pauline nonsense exacting from the bride the promise to 'obey' the groom. Here I put my foot down, rather in the manner of a husband determined to show at the outset who was boss. 'I'll have no obedience around here!' I said, banging the table. 'Is that clear?'
'Is it an order?'
'Yes. #Quote by Peter De Vries

#31. The presence of a friend who is far away can sometimes feel denser than his physical presence in a room. #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#32. Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants, and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart. #Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville

#33. The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which is all the weak are capable of, given their inability to sustain an effort of will. #Quote by Guy De Maupassant

#34. Get out of harms way. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes

#35. God who gives the wound gives the salve. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes

#36. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. #Quote by Anne Rice

#37. One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love ... #Quote by Alain De Botton

#38. I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you. #Quote by Augustus De Morgan

#39. If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. #Quote by Anthony De Mello

#40. There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman. #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes

#41. Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#42. What is that big book?" said the little prince. "What are you doing?"
"I am a geographer," said the old gentleman.
"What is a geographer?" asked the little prince.
"A geographer is a scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and deserts."
"That is very interesting," said the little prince. "Here at last is a man who has a real profession! #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#43. I saw that every flower He has created has a beauty of its own, that the splendor of the rose and the lily's whiteness do not deprive the violet of its scent nor make less ravishing the daisy's charm. I saw that if every little flower wished to be a rose, Nature would lose her spring adornments, and the fields would be no longer enameled with their varied flowers. #Quote by Therese De Lisieux

#44. I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#45. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. #Quote by Honore De Balzac