FastSaying

It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.


Melissa de la Cruz

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It's not my fault, its everyone else's......losers!
JACKIE MCQUILLAN No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
PAULO COELHO The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, t...
LUCINDA RILEY «Nunca avancemos para dejar atrás a la cruz, sino solo hacia una más profunda comprensión de la ...
C.J. MAHANEY Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps becau...
KENNETH BRANAGH I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the...
GLORIA ARROYO Nat didn't know what to make of Ryan Wesson-whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, de...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
EUGENE O'NEILL As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, crea...
LILY COLLINS Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,&...
LILY COLE I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our...
HOWARD FINEMAN Dan and I were fighting for our lives. I focused on living and not getting killed.
ERIK EISSINGER The best fairy-tale we can have in this universe is to live on our miraculous planet!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in...
HARRY TRUMAN We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the t...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paint...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know ...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of the...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had b...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could....
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. Right, of cours...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inev...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates y...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just ...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 [Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, ...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, a...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either th...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories.
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of ...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, b...
STEVEN ERIKSON We view this as a fairy tale ... a story about damsels who have to fight off the dragons in their li...
CHRIS WILLARD Its not a mission of mine to end the year No.1,
LINDSAY DAVENPORT at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
SUSAN WIGGS Its not your fault for not being there.
Its my fault for thinking you would be
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA To have the comfort of sharing and laughing with genuine people who actually care is like taking a n...
GARY F EVANS... Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was...
TERRI WINDLING The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the ...
ERIK CHRISTIAN HAUGAARD This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes y...
TERRY PRATCHETT The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor...
WALTER BENJAMIN I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is ...
DON DELILLO Every day in our jail I think we have someone who is talking about ending their own lives. How do yo...
JACKI TALLMAN We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on liv...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Tolkien did admit that, 'As a guide, I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving.' In...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.

Kingsley...I can't do this...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyl...
ANDREW LANG For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet...
BRUNO BETTELHEIM In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our asset...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
ROY L. PICKERING JR. La cruz era el plato fuerte de la teología de Pablo. No era simplemente uno de los mensajes de Pabl...
C.J. MAHANEY Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It's almost a ...
MAREN MORRIS Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We...
STEFAN BACHMANN We are not defined by our things. Its not our clothes we wear or the cars we own or the art we aquir...
ALYSON NOEL Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such de...
DONALD F. BAILLIE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re ...
JOHN GREEN In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE We are what our genetics say we are. Melissa Mae Palmer on being born with one of the rarest disease...
MELISSA MAE PALMER In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame ...
PAULO COELHO Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as myst...
VINCENT CANBY We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
SALMAN RUSHDIE The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: “I have no right...
DALE CARNEGIE If the federal government was doing its job, ranchers would not be living in fear.
CHRIS SIMCOX Until we learn to give credit, not even always where it is due, all mal-happenings - whether its by ...
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determi...
ANTHONY ROBBINS I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear...
AVA DELLAIRA Many use the word “Kingdom” flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we tal...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
THOMAS A KEMPIS As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose...
LECH WALESA Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe...
PETER DAVID The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
ELIZABETH JENNINGS I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
ELIZABETH JENNINGS Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming ...
DAVID ANDREWS We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to ...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD What is not yours always chirps for its master.
SPANISH PROVERB We don't know what the damage is, per se. We don't know if its salvageable or not. But while the bui...
DANNY WUERFFEL It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.
IRISH PROVERB We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe...
KEVIN MCCOLLUM

More Melissa de la Cruz

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, n...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant afte...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-b...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ They were embarking on a journey into the darkness inside themselves.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Leave it alone Schuyler. For your sake and mine.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Jack put a hand on his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ As Jack slung an arm around his sister's shoulders in an intimate and affectionate way, something in...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she wa...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, havin...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that.
And when he lea...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and ...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ But there's always a first time for everything
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little ...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Bet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased.
She felt smug when a few minu...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Prove it!" she hissed. "Prove you are who you are!"
"We don't have time for this! You really wa...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ He squeezed her hand one last time. Then Jack was gone and she was alone.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ They each had secrets they were keeping from the other; secrets they were keeping out of love.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I will wait forever," she promised. "However long it takes.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ We are bonded now. We will face it together. Your destiny is mine as well. We shall live or die toge...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot o...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I am not sorry for a moment . It was worth every moment, every second we were together. I would not ...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Trust me to return to you."
"I will wait forever.
however long it takes.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It's always good to be underestimated.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry.... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a won...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything,...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ <spoiler>Azrael...

In a flash, they disappeared. The path, the gate, the dem...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people lik...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ We’re the villains you root for in the story.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I'm proud of you, Bliss," he said.
"Michael's sword released the souls that were trapped in you...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no lon...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ A bad boy can be very good for a girl.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Sounds like that happens to you a lot. Bet your girlfriend wasn't thrilled, though." She wasn't sure...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that woul...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choic...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Kingsley smiled his Cheshire smile. And without a word, he called up the white darkness—the subver...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Inside the church, the bondsmaids were walking slowly down the aisle,
with the little petal gir...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her ste...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Why should I? What do you promise me?

Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and ad...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ memories were tricky things…they weren’t stable. they changed with perception over time. …they...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrif...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You're late," she said, tapping her watch.
"No, you're just early.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her ...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.

Kingsley...I can't do this...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for lovin...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to child...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Nat didn't know what to make of Ryan Wesson-whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, de...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you’ll find a light to shine your way...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I can't let you take the risk. I love you too much." -Schuyler
"Then you would rather see me bo...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours."
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I can't think of anything I'm not grateful for.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ They can be like the sun, words.
They can do for the heart what light can for a field.
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ Stop, shadow of my elusive beloved/ Image of enchantment that I most desire/ Beautiful illusion for ...
JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Songs of the Soul

On a dark night,
Inflamed by love-longing -
O exquisite risk!...
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the...
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of th...
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves ...
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit.
SOR JUANA INéS DE LA CRUZ privation is the cause of appetite
SOR JUANA INéS DE LA CRUZ When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very d...
MELISSA DE SOUSA 'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director wh...
MELISSA DE SOUSA You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York k...
MELISSA DE SOUSA In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder i...
DE LA TOUR Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where perform...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments a...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA Your anger is a gift.
ZACK DE LA ROCHA I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because o...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about ...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and...
WALTER DE LA MARE Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
WALTER DE LA MARE A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected w...
WALTER DE LA MARE Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rap...
WARREN DE LA RUE By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual a...
WARREN DE LA RUE For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
WARREN DE LA RUE Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothe...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, alwa...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered e...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hi...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I w...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices y...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfel...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Out of difficulties grow miracles.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Love and friendship exclude each other.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA My customers are successful workingwomen.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It&#...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have ...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Every season I am inspired by women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, get...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of bein...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD