France Quotes - Page 11

• Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

  Maurice Druon

  Language, Pot, Socialist

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• Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.171, Top Five Books LLC

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• Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Moving, People, Wanted

  "An Interview with Congressman Jeb Hensarling on Tim Geithner, TARP & Team Obama". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

  Noah Baumbach

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• The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil...but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics - with the Jesuits and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends.

  John Daniel

  Religious, Real, War

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• An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

  William Shakespeare

  World, England, Traitor

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Henry V (Shakespeare Library Classic)”, p.156, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Now the time is come,
  That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
  And let her head fall into England's lap.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Victory, Lap

  William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.468

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• When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Europe, Germany, Ambassadors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Taken, Years, Divergent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."

  Bill Murray

  Independent, Giving, Guy

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• American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Cinema, Film

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• I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Thinking, India

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• There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Rain, Heart

  'The Triumph of Time'

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• For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.

  Julie Delpy

  Country, President, Care

  "indieWIRE INTERVIEW | “2 Days in Paris” Director Julie Delpy". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2007.

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• What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations.

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Goal, Population

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

  Agnes Varda

  Virginia, Years, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty, has been built up in the course of history, in the course of history France has left that organization. Normally the Alliance has been lead by consent, building up consensus on important issues of questions, in many instances over the last 30 years that I have followed events closely. In many, many cases was being done under the spiritual guidance of the American President, that is true, but sometimes also at the guidance of others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Spiritual, Years, Building Up

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• Our political class no longer has any convictions. You can only pass along the beliefs that you hold. They no longer believe in France - they have a post-national worldview. I call them France-skeptics. That's why democracy is collapsing here in France.

  Marine Le Pen

  Believe, Class, Political

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• The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than
  is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal
  investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
  France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
  because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other
  the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the
  province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond
  life, beyond time, into eternity.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Philosophy, Drama, Heart

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.11, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

  Thomas Piketty

  Discipline, Political, Intellectual

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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• The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Fighting, Army, Organization

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

  Daryl Hall

  Cousin, Circles, Wife

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• When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

  Didier Drogba

  Parent, Far Away, Cried

  "The Premiership's French foreign legion" by Rob Draper, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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