It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
NINON DE LENCLOS Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to...
NINON DE L'ENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS The resistance of a woman to a man’s advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes it’s jus...
NINON DE LENCLOS Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one...
NINON DE LENCLOS Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion
NINON DE LENCLOS Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to...
NINON DE LENCLOS Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
NINON DE LENCLOS It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
NINON DE LENCLOS Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in da...
NINON DE LENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE LENCLOS Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
NINON DE LENCLOS A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
NINON DE LENCLOS The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience
NINON DE LENCLOS The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
NINON DE LENCLOS Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what...
NINON DE LENCLOS A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a ...
NINON DE LENCLOS If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet
NINON DE LENCLOS Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
NINON DE LENCLOS Old age is a woman's hell
NINON DE LENCLOS If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS You know, we worry about the Bomb, a thought interceded, and yet just look around: there are million...
ETIENNE DE L'AMOUR Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too dista...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, now...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM You're doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and ...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Brunettes are full of electricity.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is ...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
LOUIS L'AMOUR I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Some things have to be believed to be seen.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, bu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
LOUIS L'AMOUR The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as g...
LOUIS L'AMOUR A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've nev...
JOHN L'HEUREUX In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created,...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
LOUIS L'AMOUR For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable....
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in...
LOUIS L'AMOUR People are more than just the way they look.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel th...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h...
LOUIS L'AMOUR We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.
I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Nam...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set in...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.
LOUIS L'AMOUR I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my d...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows sh...
LOUIS L'AMOUR We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civili...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let g...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's alw...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars...
MADELINE L'ENGLE When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops o...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm gro...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In my dreams, I never have an age.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
LOUIS L'AMOUR It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticip...
LOUIS L'AMOUR You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
LOUIS L'AMOUR Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

MADELEINE L'ENGLE Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
LOUIS L'AMOUR To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a...
LOUIS L'AMOUR For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, an...
L'PONI BALDWIN He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his an...
L'PONI BALDWIN I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.

-Nick Plato (from the story Plato...
L'PONI BALDWIN He couldn't take his eye off that dragon
There was something odd about the swaying of his tail<...
L'PONI BALDWIN When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorate...
L'PONI BALDWIN The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Wha...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Believing takes practice.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
AUGUSTE VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talking a...
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some d...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is ...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle ...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the count...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have
IRAZ 'DEALOVA' Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STA&EUML;L Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction...
MME DE STA&EUML;L The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
BAHá'U'LLáH The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...
BAHá'U'LLáH Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
BAHá'U'LLáH I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ दो न्याय अगर तो आधा दो,

पर, इसमें भी ...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ?
भूखंड-विजेता क...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ�...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Am in the making, you can't break me. Life to me, is a Chain. It will loose just at the right time b...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE If there's anything i can feel, that's to the fact that i will grow even when i fall. Life is too si...
TEMI 'T QUEST' SHOLEYE You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER 'BUCKY' FULLER Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we n...
K'WAN • you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥
MANA'HIL Won't you be my girlfriend
I'll treat you good
I know you hear your friends when they say...
'N SYNC I don't know why you care.
He doesn't even know you're there
'N SYNC Life isn't a fairytale but we can make it like a fairytale
LUCY 'AISY Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a goo...
LUCY 'AISY Ain’t nothing wrong with a little crew love!” True mocked her.
K'WAN What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?
'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today
GILLIAN HOVELL, 'VISITING THE PAST' What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?
IBN 'ATA'ILLAH AL-ISKANDARI To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy.
LOUIS ARMAND DE LOM D'ARCE LAHONTAN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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