Top 36 Fabius Quotes

#1. The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

Laurent Fabius

#2. Leave already, because I'm on the verge of hypothetically kicking my foot up your ass, and I doubt the pain of it will be pretend.

Devon Ashley

#3. To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking

Agnes De Mille

#4. One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, "the Procrastinator." He drove Hannibal, who had an obvious military superiority, crazy by avoiding and delaying engagement.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Laurent Fabius

#6. While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is the power of the Primal Cause to decipher what is perceived from the ordered plane and conceive judgments through thoughts from the unordered.

Dew Platt

#7. Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#8. If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

Laurent Fabius

#9. But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

Laurent Fabius

#10. For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

Laurent Fabius

#11. A day will come when a woman will be elected to the top of the pyramid, to be a prime minister or a president, and the whole world will know her and hear about her. She may be sitting here amongst us.

Efrat Israeli

#12. The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

Laurent Fabius

#13. I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

Laurent Fabius

#14. To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Fabius Maximus

#15. We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#16. This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Laurent Fabius

#17. Shopkeepers are not bankers.

Laurent Fabius

#18. This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

Laurent Fabius

#19. I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Laurent Fabius

#20. The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Laurent Fabius

#21. Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.

Laurent Fabius

#22. There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.

Dov Davidoff

#23. A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#24. At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Laurent Fabius

#25. There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#26. Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.

Fabius Maximus

#27. A liar should have a good memory.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#28. Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#29. In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred repository, when they may be drawn forth for sudden emergencies, or as circumstances require.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#30. One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

Quintus Ennius

#31. France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

Laurent Fabius

#32. There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

Laurent Fabius

#33. A fearless heart is free of desire, a kind heart finds paradise everywhere.

Alan Yuen

#34. Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student's lot.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#35. We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

Laurent Fabius

#36. Without his phone, he seemed to breathe easier, and Bella realized, she thought that held true for most people.

Melissa Foster

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