Deffand Quotes

#1. Deffand fell in love with him, and thought that at her age she could

Virginia Woolf

#2. Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#3. Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#4. Embrace the beauty of existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.

Rick Warren

#6. Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#7. Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#8. I liked him as a bloke, and I like a lot of their songs. I like "Girls On Film," and I can't pretend otherwise. I don't have hatred for different forms of music, in fact I've got a great deal of love and openness to everything done by anybody. Christ, I have to: I've got two Alvin Stardust albums.

John Lydon

#9. He felt oddly powerless, as if his entire life were in the fingers of two faceless players maneuvering pieces in the same patterns on some vast board in a game that, for all he knew, had lasted for eternity.

David Eddings

#10. God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#11. The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.

Mari De Vichy-Chamrond Marquise Du Deffand

#12. Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#13. I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

Lea Salonga

#14. Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#15. I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#16. I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.

Craig Kelly

#17. No matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

Rachel Field

#18. The first step is the hardest.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#19. Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it.

Erica Jong

#20. There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Marcus Aurelius

#21. Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#22. Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#23. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.

Madame Du Deffand

#24. Women, I love. It's amazing to me, because I am a swimsuit model; I'm half-naked. I just love the fact that women love me, and it makes me love them so much back.

Chrissy Teigen

#25. I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

George W. Bush

#26. I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#27. I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

Brett Favre