Franco Prussian Quotes

#1. Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian W

Marcel Proust

#2. As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.

Louis Tice

#3. The world is nothing but a moment.

Rumi

#4. I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Loretta Lynn

#5. Love yourself' the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing narcissist.

Kevin Focke

#6. When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Peter Weir

#7. How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.

Milan Kundera

#8. There is no ending to this story because, as I've realised, stories don't have endings, only beginnings.

Shirley Marr

#9. Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#10. Fear is an illusion that you can destroy with the power of hope.

Ali Parker

#11. You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

#12. No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

Hamid Karzai

#13. The weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water ... To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.

Leonce Patry

#14. Ask with urgency and passion.

Arthur Balfour