Steef De Bot Quotes

#1. You can't always win. But you should keep trying. #Quote by Gabbo De La Parra

#2. Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons. #Quote by Vincent De Paul

#3. He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#4. Back on the ferry, I sip some vodka on the rocks and have a chat with God.
Me: (desperately) What the *&%$# am I going to do?
God:
Me: (surprised) Really? After all those Sundays of being a back up singer for Jesus, you got nothing to say?
God:
Me: (humbly) Help me out here. #Quote by Lexis De Rothschild

#5. Once certain of arriving, why hurry on the journey so fast? #Quote by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

#6. We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent ... #Quote by Madame De Stael

#7. Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone. #Quote by Henry De Montherlant

#8. peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an invaluable wellspring of courage from which those children would eventually be able to draw to sustain the confessions and direct conversations of adult life. Rabih #Quote by Alain De Botton

#9. Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best #Quote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#11. Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes...
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important. #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#12. Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. #Quote by Madame De Stael

#13. If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred. #Quote by Shahid Afridi

#14. The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. #Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

#15. The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite. #Quote by Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

#16. Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul? #Quote by Eamon De Valera

#17. Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of Lafayette shall stand enrolled upon the annals of our race, high on the list of the pure and disinterested benefactors of mankind. #Quote by Marquis De Lafayette

#18. Astrid," Linda called, her feet tucked under herself on the flower-print couch. "If you had a choice between two weeks in Paris France, all expenses paid, or a car - "
"Shitty Buick," Debby interjected.
"What's wrong with a Buick?" Marvel said.
" - which would you take?" Linda picked something out of the corner of her eye with a long press-on nail.
I brought their drinks, suppressing the desire to limp theatrically, the deformed servant, and fit all the glasses into hands without spilling. They couldn't be serious. Paris? My Paris? Elegant fruit shops and filterless Gitanes, dark woolen coats, the Bois de Boulogne? "Take the car," I said. "Definitely. #Quote by Janet Fitch

#19. Germans Francis Grund, and Francis Lieber, and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about the striking social equality they found in America, the absence of differences in status. They all noted the American obsession with work and the restless quest for the "almighty dollar."18 #Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville

#20. Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. #Quote by Alphonse De Lamartine

#21. The best artists know what to leave out. #Quote by Charles De Lint

#22. In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. #Quote by Louis De Bernieres

#23. ...and what creature, after all, is more precious, more attractive in the eyes of men, than the woman who has cherished, respected, and cultivated all earthly virtues, only to find, at every step, both misfortune and sorrow? #Quote by Marquis De Sade

#24. Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine." #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#25. Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers. #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#26. Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen. #Quote by Marquis De Lafayette

#27. Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say. #Quote by Michel De Montaigne

#28. Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions. #Quote by Gustave De Beaumont

#29. Noise makes no good, good makes no noise. #Quote by Vincent De Paul

#30. It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour. #Quote by Ana De La Reguera

#31. It was ... the Great White God de-throned, I suppose. Because we did, we quite unselfconsciously assumed we were the measure of all things. That was how we approached them. And suddenly I saw that we weren't the measure of all things, but that there was no measure. #Quote by Pat Barker

#32. The romantic boy told her that her mother was like the oyster of the sea. Not because she carried the most beautiful shell, but because her daughter was a pearl. #Quote by Giovannie De Sadeleer

#33. However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great nation. #Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville

#34. Armand Gamache wondered whether CC de Poitiers was at that very moment trying to explain herself to a perplexed God and two very angry seals. #Quote by Louise Penny

#35. When women love us they forgive everything. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#36. The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of. #Quote by Willem De Kooning

#37. Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the spirit of love, as I shall show in the explanation of the following verse. #Quote by San Juan De La Cruz

#38. Morality is stronger than tyrants. #Quote by Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#39. I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read. #Quote by Alain De Botton

#40. Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally given to the term, but to specify thereby all the actions that emanate from active goodness. #Quote by Germaine De Stael

#41. The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower. #Quote by Alice Morse Earle

#42. That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time. #Quote by Brian De Palma