privation is the cause of appetite


Sor Juana Inés 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

If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit.
SOR JUANA INéS DE LA CRUZ
«Nunca avancemos para dejar atrás a la cruz, sino solo hacia una más profunda comprensión de la ...
C.J. MAHANEY
Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the...
GLORIA ARROYO
La cruz era el plato fuerte de la teología de Pablo. No era simplemente uno de los mensajes de Pabl...
C.J. MAHANEY
They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work ...
OCTAVIO PAZ
Puisque l'amour est cause de la joie, où l'amour est plus grand, la joie est plus manifeste.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre l...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
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
Los efectos de la conservación de la Tierra dependen de la conservación de las causas.
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA
La juventud es un engaño -un engaño de la prensa y libros de texto. ¡La mejor época de la vida! ...
HERMANN HESSE
La seguridad de la Fe vence a la duda de la Razón.
CRISTO LEON
No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
¡La poesía no es de quien la escribe, sino de quien la usa!
ANTONIO SKáRMETA
Stop, shadow of my elusive beloved/ Image of enchantment that I most desire/ Beautiful illusion for ...
JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ
The animal is not afraid of the flame, but of the heat it emanates. (L'animal n'a peur de la flamme,...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
Les hommes extrêmement heureux, et les hommes extrêmement malheureux a , sont également portés �...
MONTESQUIEU
La educación hace a la gente fácil de dirigir pero difícil de manipular, fácil de gobernar pero ...
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
La felicidad duradera nos la proporcionan las consecuencias de nuestros actos, no la cantidad de nue...
ROBIN S. SHARMA
Todo en ella es cautivante, como la consecuencia de una tormenta. No se supone que la gente obtenga ...
COLLEEN HOOVER
Si el vino es el enemigo de la religión, habré de devorar al enemigo de la religión.
IDRIES SHAH
La règle d'or de la conduite est la tolérance mutuelle, car nous ne penserons jamais tous de la m�...
MAHATMA GANDHI
Una curva de la calle puso ante su vista el campanario de la catedral de Westminster, la forma fáli...
DAVID LODGE
The handle of the heart is the hand of another. (La poignée du cœur - Est la main de l'autre.)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE
La tecnología etérea y digital que reemplazó a la imprenta ha alcanzado la mayoria de edad en un ...
JARON LANIER
On dit père grec, mère suisse-française... On me demande, mais alors, quelle est votre patrie? Je...
GEORGES HALDAS
La peur bloque la compréhension intelligente de la vie.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlam...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria...
CLARA CAMPOAMOR
En otras palabras, la individualización consiste en transformar la identidad humana de algo 'dado' ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Amaba tan entrañablemente su patria, que jamás quiso dudar de que fuese también la mía por temor...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]
NICEPHORUS
La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla de...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Es más difícil sondear la mente de una mujer que los fundamentos de la mecánica cuántica.
SHAHEN HACYAN
la conveniencia de las actitudes esquiva los cuerpos, la decencia de las palabras blanquea los discu...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Cómo soportaba él los ojos de la muchacha y revolvía los suyos contra la cabeza juvenil, escapand...
JUAN CARLOS ONETTI
El tiempo es cuestion de tiempo, la vida es cuestion de vida, la vida dura un momento, el tiempo tod...
MICHELLE SANCHEZ
A veces nos vamos para tratar de encontrarnos. Al hacernos mayores nos perdemos. No sabemos qué hac...
ÁNGELA BECERRA
Hay criminales que proclaman tan campantes ‘la maté porque era mía’, así no más, como si fue...
EDUARDO GALEANO
Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO
I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
La peor guerra es la que se da entre la humildad Y TU ORGULLO...
RON CHACHAGUA
Las mujeres que se fanatizaron con la liberación femenina fueron las que encontraron una manera mar...
RICARDO ARJONA
Cuando tu orgullo sea igual a cero, podré despejar esta variable que hoy veo imposible sacar en la ...
RON CHACHAGUA
Soy el obrero que maneja mi vida, Soy el empleado que rige mi existir y soy el unico ke en mi vida h...
RON CHACHAGUA
Una mujer debe tener dinero y una habitación propia para poder escribir novelas; y esto, como veis,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
El apócrifo aviso de la columna de 'busco trabajo'-'tengo auto, puedo viajar'- puede servir como ep...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Hay que cumplir con la tarea de vivir de tal forma que cuando nos vayamos, hasta el dueño de la fun...
JOSé MADERO VIZCAíNO
La vanidad es la necedad del egoísmo, y el orgullo, la insolencia de la vanidad.
FERNáN CABALLERO
Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.
MIGUEL DELIBES
La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO
En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
La Station de Sevres.
MAX BECKMANN
Oscar De La Hoya,
OSCAR DE LA HOYA
Otra vez tambores de guerra, y son siempre los mismos quienes los percuten. Decía Roger Garaudy que...
FERNANDO SáNCHEZ DRAGó
Pero aun las ideas, por más insustanciales que parezcan, necesitan un punto de apoyo, de lo contrar...
STEFAN ZWEIG
Caustique ? Vous voulez dire : méchant ? Oui, je suis un peu méchant, dit Settembrini. Mon regret ...
THOMAS MANN
Quand il mangeait des babas ou des éclairs, il se sentait coupable jusqu'à l'âme, à cause de la ...
BOILEAU-NARCEJAC
Formar parte de la minoría, aunque fuese una minoría de uno solo, no te convertía en loco. Había...
GEORGE ORWELL
Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, an...
OLIVIER WEBER
Una combinación de inversiones en sintonía con las necesidades y condiciones locales pueden permit...
JEFFREY D. SACHS
Ne pas laisser la beauté de l'instant être contaminée par la lourdeur du passé ou l'incertitude ...
MUSSO GUILLAUM
Une condamnation de la vie de la part du vivant n’est finalement que le symptôme d’une espèce ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.
OSCAR WILDE
« La façon zen de vivre : PAS D'EGO, PAS DE PROBLEMES. »
KUNCHOK
They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo Ha de ser ...
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Y la cuestión es ésta: la televisión invierte la evolución de lo sensible en inteligible y lo co...
GIOVANNI SARTORI
La société bourgeoise moderne, élevée sur les ruines de la société féodale, n'a pas aboli les...
KARL MARX
El niño que sobrevivió continúa siendo un símbolo de nuestra causa: el triunfo del bien, el pode...
J.K. ROWLING
Son múltiples los usos para las incontables oportunidades que depara la vida moderna de mirar —co...
SUSAN SONTAG
Confieso que el Elixir de la Larga Vida me seducía más: antes de entender y sentir la presencia de...
PAULO COELHO
Je savais qu'un afflux inespéré d'énergie l'avait levé de son lit, lui avait donné la force de ...
MURIEL BARBERY
N'ayez jamais peur de la vie, n'ayez jamais peur de l'aventure, faites confiance au hasard, à la ch...
HENRY DE MONFREID
Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los vienes ajenos, el gran moto...
JUAN ESLAVA GALáN
Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los bienes ajenos, el gran moto...
JUAN ESLAVA GALáN
La drept vorbind, toată viaţa mea e un şir de pasiuni eşuate.
Mereu am luat-o de la începu...
OCTAVIAN PALER
La fuente de la mayoria de los males radica en cómo los seres humanos se aferran a los seres humano...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ
Los intelectuales de Occidente son todos aficionados a la silla. Por eso la mayoría de ustedes son ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
De ahí que la amistad aparezca representada por pactos de sangre, lealtades eternas e incluso mitif...
DAVID TRUEBA
En admettant que l’on ait compris ce qu’il y a de sacrilège dans un pareil soulèvement contre ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no ...
SUSAN SONTAG
el hábito de la desesperación es peor que la desesperación misma.
ALBERT CAMUS
La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco...
C.G. JUNG
Cuanto mejor protegidos de la contaminación están los valores preservados en el pensamiento, menos...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Dios sabe que nunca hemos de avergonzarnos de nuestras lágrimas, porque son la lluvia que limpia el...
CHARLES DICKENS
¿Os dais cuenta cabal de la cadena de crímenes tramados por la nena? Crimen número uno: la acusad...
ROALD DAHL
La belleza de Margo era una especie de recipiente de perfección cerrado, intacto e irrompible.
JOHN GREEN
Dans une vie de bohème
on peut faire de poème.
Comment serait la vie
sans la douce...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
Temperee, riante, (comme le sont celles d'automne dans la tres gracieuse ville de Buenos Aires) resp...
LEOPOLDO MARECHAL
A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más f...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE
La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos...
FRANCESC MIRALLES
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
ANATOLE FRANCE
La ironía de la vida es como a un burdel sin prostitutas.
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ
Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen sien...
ANTONIO GUADARRAMA
en realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino que la vida espere algo de nosotros. D...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL

More Sor Juana Inés 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
Stop, shadow of my elusive beloved/ Image of enchantment that I most desire/ Beautiful illusion for ...
JUANA INES 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
It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale som...
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
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
I saw him do this.
JUANA CASTRO
Oh, it is impossible to go to anywhere.
JUANA CASTRO
They yell at us really bad. People are just tired of being treated like dogs.
JUANA CARBAJAL
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