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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.


François de La Rouchefoucauld

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD C'est pas assez que tous tu dis c'est de la merde, François? Tu veux coucher dans la merde, aussi?
JENNIFER DONNELLY My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.
ERNST LUBITSCH One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER I'll give you a gift." Too late, you're already there ... ("Je vais t'offrir un cadeau." - Trop tard...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And someti...
MONIKA BASILE What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thous...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES KETTERING The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES F. KETTERING A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
RUDOLF NUREYEV The agenda is one line, but there are one thousand matters to discuss (on the ceasefire).
ANTON BALASINGHAM Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG La seguridad de la Fe vence a la duda de la Razón.
CRISTO LEON You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U...
ANGIE KARAN In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
JOHN RAY Los efectos de la conservación de la Tierra dependen de la conservación de las causas.
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.
ATHENAGORAS I There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace require...
PAWAN MISHRA La juventud es un engaño -un engaño de la prensa y libros de texto. ¡La mejor época de la vida! ...
HERMANN HESSE Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
MARIANA FULGER If you haven't been there, use your imagination. Imagination takes you everywhere.
EPHDAN From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
DR. SUESS He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ...
JERZY KOSINKSI Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
JODI PICOULT We have them just where they want us.
JAMES T. KIRK It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER 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 There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-...
JANET ONG ZIMMERMAN (De La Salle) still has the mystique and respect -- they're the standard. But the skill level just i...
ALONZO CARTER There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R...
DEYTH BANGER Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK There may be a hundred reasons to like someone but to love there is only one that causes the differe...
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not ca...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not importan...
HELEN HAYES The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not import...
HELEN HAYES Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
DAVID LEVITHAN There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have u...
C. JOYBELL C. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
JEFFREY FRY There is only one terminal dignity -- love.
HELEN HAYES There is only one terminal dignity - love.
HELEN HAYES There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is ...
MEISTER ECKHART Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and...
ROBERT GRAVES La educación hace a la gente fácil de dirigir pero difícil de manipular, fácil de gobernar pero ...
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM He was a kind of éminence grise, a political leader, in a clandestine movement. Everyone knows ther...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is only one autumn in a year, but in people’s life, there are many autumns in one year!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the...
ANATOLE FRANCE Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE ¡La poesía no es de quien la escribe, sino de quien la usa!
ANTONIO SKáRMETA Cheap imitations do not thrill or inspire. Only that Love which has God's seal of approval will sati...
KIM BOOHER There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [...
THOMAS ROBERT DUC D'ISLY BUGEAUD The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and unca...
MOTHER TERESA Todo en ella es cautivante, como la consecuencia de una tormenta. No se supone que la gente obtenga ...
COLLEEN HOOVER There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Les hommes extrêmement heureux, et les hommes extrêmement malheureux a , sont également portés �...
MONTESQUIEU There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.
DEBASISH MRIDHA La tecnología etérea y digital que reemplazó a la imprenta ha alcanzado la mayoria de edad en un ...
JARON LANIER Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love wha...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come t...
ALEXI ZENTNER Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre l...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go awa...
ANTONYA NELSON All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Don't use it because it is available for you. It is available for you just in case you need it.
EPHDAN A tough lesson we must learn in life is that....NOT everyone is going to wish you well, not everyone...
JESSICA FAYE HAMMER I may not be the kind of person you want me to, but I will always be there for you.
ALFUSAINEY JALLOW Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n...
LIONEL SHRIVER En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlam...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
RUMI Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One m...
MARK TWAIN There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient
MARILYNNE ROBINSON Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria...
CLARA CAMPOAMOR La felicidad duradera nos la proporcionan las consecuencias de nuestros actos, no la cantidad de nue...
ROBIN S. SHARMA It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN En otras palabras, la individualización consiste en transformar la identidad humana de algo 'dado' ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN 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�...
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FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
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FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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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.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
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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.
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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 His brow is seamed with line and scar;
His cheek is red and dark as wine;
The fires as of ...
WALTER DE LA MARE The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Only the great can afford to have great defects.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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