Briand Quotes

#1. You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him long ago.' Frodo wondered if the remark meant more than it said

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.

Sonu Nigam

#3. One doesn't lie down with a lion and get to act surprised if one finds oneself devoured.

Graham Moore

#4. As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

David Nicholls

#5. God' is an excuse to justify hate.

Anonymous

#6. Am I dreaming?" "You're not dreaming," Matthew said. "And, Diana?" He hesitated. "I love you." It was what I most wanted to hear. The forgotten chain inside me started to sing, quietly, in the dark.

Deborah Harkness

#7. The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Aristide Briand

#8. Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse.

Sharon Kay Penman

#9. It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Aristide Briand

#11. A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.

David Maister

#12. Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

Aristide Briand

#13. This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

Aristide Briand

#14. Live to learn ... forget ... and learn again.

Aristide Briand

#15. Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

Warren Buffett

#16. The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

Aristide Briand

#17. But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.

Aristide Briand

#18. Be courageous: be still.

Gina Greenlee

#19. A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Aristide Briand

#20. When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

Aristide Briand

#22. people are unable to process new information while they are experiencing shame.

Vicki Underland-Rosow