Eleonore Quotes & Sayings

I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too. — Eleonore Caron

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

None but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

We Draytons are many things: pirates, witches, rogues ... but nobody ever accused us of being ungrateful. A family has to have standards. Even in the Edge. — Ilona Andrews

The logic of the heart is absurd — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better. — Rip Taylor

When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix. — Jean-Marie Guehenno

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy. — Jay Roach

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul? — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Tonglen means "taking in and sending out". This meditation practice is designed to help ordinary people like ourselves connect with the openness and softness of our hearts. Instead of shielding and protecting our soft spot, with tonglen we could let ourselves feel what it is to be human. — Pema Chodron

I read what I feel, and not what I see. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. — David Bronstein

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice.
"'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there. — Diana Gabaldon

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. — Robert Lynd

If there's any T and A in view, you had better," I cleared my throat as his knuckles brushed my collarbone, his lips beginning to suckle at my neck, "keep your eyes averted if you're wanting to keep them." "I like my eyes right where they are." He sighed softly. "On the woman I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. — Scarlett Dawn

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Oh! how many times we die before death! — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him. — Dov Davidoff

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness - the one centre where more might become known. There we find other stirrings, other revelations than those conditioned by the world of symbols ... Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism. Surely then that mental and spiritual nature of ourselves, known in our minds by an intimate contact transcending the methods of physics, supplies just that ... which science is admittedly unable to give. — Arthur Stanley Eddington