French Quotes

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

What a day-to-day affair life is.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.