A Quote by Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

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

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

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Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
1697 - September 23, 1780

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

Andy Goldsworthy

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

Zora Neale Hurston

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

Julian of Norwich

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

Maria W. Stewart

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Dwight L. Moody

From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

Bill Gates

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brian Eno

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray

Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Dorothy Parker

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Philip Sidney

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Hosea Ballou

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

Henry Ward Beecher

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

Deborah Eisenberg

And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, "I'm sorry."