French Republic Sayings

#1. Bavarian beer to destroy the sympathy of the United States with the French Republic. METZ, October 12. - While examining

Various

#2. My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

Francois Hollande

#3. The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.

Charles Maurras

#4. But clothing themselves in the trappings of democracy, dictators may, like drag queens, tend to overdo it, and Napoleon wanted there to be no doubt that his French Republic was more democratic than any before it.

Tom Reiss

#5. Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Doug Larson

#6. Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.

Geoff Mulgan

#7. Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

Ayn Rand

#8. The French Revolution, the republic, the motherland ... yes, all that paved the way for something, something that lasted a little more than a century. The Christian Middle Ages lasted a millennium and more.

Michel Houellebecq

#9. Phoenix, n.
The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Ambrose Bierce

#10. I had dinner at your parents' house three days ago and once a week is my limit. Joe to Stephanie.

Janet Evanovich

#11. For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Isaac Asimov

#12. Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.

Charles James Fox

#13. A two-week-old ceasefire in the Central African Republic collapsed, as conflict resumed between fighters tied to Muslim and Christian militias. French troops trying to hold the ring were attacked.

Anonymous

#14. The most consistent thing about Graham Wessit was his attitude of open experiment. Can you even imagine , she asked herself, plain, quiet, intellectual little you spending a lifetime on the arm of such a havoc-producing man?

Judith Ivory

#15. The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

Michael O'Leary

#16. Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.

LaVyrle Spencer

#17. Two weeks after the flight of the government from Naples, the French moved an army of six thousand soldiers into the city, and by late January a cabal of enlightened aristocrats and professors had engendered a monstrosity that called itself the Parthenopean or Vesuvian Republic. Most

Susan Sontag

#18. I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty. -Kuchiki Rukia

Tite Kubo

#19. Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.

Robert O. Paxton

#20. Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!

Baron Munchhausen

#21. The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies ... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.

Tom Reiss

#22. The pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

Agnes Repplier

#23. Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin," said Hagrid darkly. "There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin. You-Know-Who was one.

J.K. Rowling

#24. Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

Charles Perrault

#25. By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.

Mariska Hargitay

#26. There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

Patrice Nganang