Top 32 Francois Mitterrand Quotes
#1. I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
Francois Hollande
#2. I have given myself one objective, to be the long-awaited successor to Francois Mitterrand.
Francois Hollande
#3. 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
#4. Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union
Francois Mitterrand
#5. To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. 'Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are. [ ... ] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.
Francois Mitterrand
#6. Keep your eyes open and you'll see more than you ever dreamed of.
Marty Rubin
#7. Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)
Andrew Young
#9. The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.
Francois Mitterrand
#10. I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.
Martin Henderson
#11. Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.
Francois Mitterrand
#12. The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together.
Francois Hollande
#13. All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
Francois Mitterrand
#14. I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.
Simon Cowell
#16. I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.
Francois Mitterrand
#17. Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.
Francois Mitterrand
#19. France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Francois Mitterrand
#20. I go through life accumulating possessions ... I've always done it ... and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away.
Preston Sturges
#21. France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.
Francois Mitterrand
#22. In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."
Francois Mitterrand
#23. My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
Cara Delevingne
#24. Turning away from Jesus Christ is TURNING AWAY from LIFE. It is turning away from GOD!
Paul Silway
#26. Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.
Francois Hollande
#27. It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.
Stanislaw Lem
#28. The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come into our lives for reasons we can't yet understand.
Tonya Hurley
#29. Life is too short to not kick fear in the ass and allow yourself to love again.
Steve Maraboli
#30. A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Francois Mitterrand
#31. It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it. I have to exercise to be able to fit the clothes and book the jobs.
Cindy Crawford
#32. For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.
Francois Mitterrand
