Germaine De Stael Quotes

#1. Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

#2. Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally given to the term, but to specify thereby all the actions that emanate from active goodness.

Germaine De Stael

#3. If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep.

Lonely Island

#4. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature

NT Wright

#5. Genius has no sex

Germaine De Stael

#6. Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships.

Germaine De Stael

#7. Sensibility, imagination, reason, each is subservient to the other. Every one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness, instead of strength, if it were not modified or completed by the collective character of our nature.

Germaine De Stael

#8. Sow good services, sweet rememberances will grow from them.

Germaine De Stael

#9. Habits are behaviors that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously. Whether you realize it or not, your life has been, and will continue to be, created by your habits. If you don't control your habits your habits will control you.

Hal Elrod

#10. The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years.

Julia Child

#11. ... the reciprocal obligation from man to man holds the first rank; what regards ourselves, ought to be considered relatively to the influence that we may possess over the destiny of others...

Germaine De Stael

#12. Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

John Astin

#13. Men do not change. They unmask themselves.

Germaine De Stael

#14. Negotation is a point of interection of common interest.

Sukant Ratnakar

#15. I learn life from the poets.

Germaine De Stael

#16. Beautiful, delightful, noble, memorable, as is the world, I yet am well content in my shady crevice.

Christina Rossetti

#17. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Germaine De Stael

#18. Morality and freedom are as certainly the only bases of the happiness and dignity of the human race as the system of Galileo is the true theory of the celestial motions.

Germaine De Stael

#19. Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it. I

Garth Stein

#20. Punish them all.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm

Germaine De Stael