Diane De Poitiers Quotes

#1. All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

Obafemi Awolowo

#2. I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

Jack Davenport

#4. The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

John Ashbery

#5. Tact is good taste in action.

Diane De Poitiers

#6. Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

Diane De Poitiers

#7. You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.

Eric Thomas

#8. Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Diane De Poitiers

#9. It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Diane De Poitiers

#10. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Diane De Poitiers

#11. Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

Diane De Poitiers

#12. The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

Seth

#13. It is easier to win love than to keep it.

Diane De Poitiers

#14. We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Diane De Poitiers

#15. I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

Kami Garcia

#16. I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

Melissa Leo

#17. It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

Diane De Poitiers

#18. See well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

Diane De Poitiers

#19. Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Diane De Poitiers

#20. When enough individuals arrive at the same gut feeling, a company can be said to have a brand.

Marty Neumeier