Fayette Quotes & Sayings

Confidence is sexy! — Tracy Allen

There are those to whom we dare give no sign of the love that we feel for them, except in things that do not touch them directly; and, though one dares not show them that they are loved, one would at least like them to see that one does not wish to be loved by anyone else. One would hope them to know that there is no beauty, whatever her rank in society, whom one would not look upon with indifference, and that there is no crown that one would wish to purchase at the price of not seeing them again. — Madame De La Fayette

One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it. — Madame De La Fayette

Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain. — James Fenimore Cooper

Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye — Gottfried Bohm

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want. — Madame De La Fayette

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting. — Henri Matisse

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing ... — Madame De La Fayette

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs. — Sigmund Freud

If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy. — Madame De La Fayette

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation. — Norman Cousins

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were. — Rush Limbaugh

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy. — Alexandra Johnson

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy. — R.C. Sproul

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville. — Chris Stapleton

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him. — Madame De La Fayette

Noah, his voice muffled, said, "Sometimes I pretend I'm like him."
"What part?"
He considered. "Alive. — Maggie Stiefvater

I know my maker sanctions what I do. For the world's judgement - I wash my hands thereof. For man's opinion- I defy it — Charlotte Bronte

Americans made beautiful, principled speeches and imposed countless conditions on all manner of things. But in the end, in Africa they seemed to move the ball very slowly. They regarded Africa not as a terrain of opportunity, or even as a morally compelling challenge to humanity, but as a burden, and largely as one to be evaded as much as possible. — Howard W. French

Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence. — Madame De La Fayette

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. — Jack Layton

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. — Claude Fayette Bragdon

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour. — Benjamin Disraeli

One is very weak when one is in love. — Madame De La Fayette

If you judge by appearances in this place,' said Mme de Chartres, 'you will often be deceived, because what appears to be the case hardly ever is. — Madame De La Fayette

We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them. — Madame De La Fayette