De Courcelles Quotes

#1. If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

Terry Eagleton

#2. we see it as a means of sharing responsibility for acting together in pursuit of the common good.

Ed O'Malley

#3. We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#4. Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#5. The glorious hours sound not just for heroic action on the battlefield but also for those activities that occur in daily life, for it is when war is over that a soldier's heart and character are also revealed.

Don Kladstrup

#6. Politeness costs little and yields much.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#7. I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren't here, and just now - like a knife-slit - they are here, still dripping sweet blood.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#8. Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going.

Debasish Mridha

#9. The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#10. Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#11. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#12. Whether we like it or not, we are puppets of our emotions. We make complex decisions by consulting our feelings, not our thoughts. Against our best intentions, we substitute the question, "What do I think about this?" with "How do I feel about this?" So, smile! Your future depends on it.

Rolf Dobelli

#13. The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#14. We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#15. Good relationships depend upon recognizing that we are the source of our problems.

Dan Negroni

#16. Your lips are bitter-sweet with the taste of my wine of pain.

Rabindranath Tagore

#17. If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

Paul Feig

#18. The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#19. Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps

Karl Lagerfeld

#20. One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#21. I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.

Ken Wilber

#22. We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#23. If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.

Gertrude Stein

#24. Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles