Top 38 Francois L'olonnais Quotes
#2. I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
Francois Mauriac
#4. Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
Francois Fenelon
#7. To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.
Jean Francois Revel
#8. And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#9. I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
Francois Truffaut
#10. The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.
Jean-Francois Beauchemin
#11. If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will ... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.
Francois Hollande
#12. Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#14. Everyone must understand that you can't demand solidarity when there's a problem and shirk your duties when there are solutions.
Francois Hollande
#15. Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
Francois Gautier
#16. The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#18. The dress does not make the monk.
[Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
Francois Rabelais
#19. I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there.
Francois Arnaud
#20. To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.
Francois Hollande
#23. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Francois Fenelon
#24. The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#25. Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#26. Muslims in France should be able to practice their religion freely and safely.
Francois Hollande
#27. The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais
#35. One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#38. A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
Francois Mauriac