Giscard Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

Isaac Asimov

#3. I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

Mem Fox

#4. Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Groucho Marx

#5. You belong somewhere you feel free.

Tom Petty

#6. Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [ ... ] All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.

Valery Giscard D'Estaing

#7. Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

Teri Garr

#8. You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging

Valery Giscard D'Estaing

#9. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Maya Angelou

#10. Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

Max Lucado

#11. I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

Tom Landry

#12. Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes.
No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

Deb Caletti

#13. Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse."

Frederick Lenz

#14. We have sown a seed ... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.

Valery Giscard D'Estaing

#15. My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

Harry Connick Jr.

#16. Let's be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

Valery Giscard D'Estaing

#17. They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.
"Ay," the old man said. "Galanos. Come on galanos.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

R.C. Sproul

#19. Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees?

Joe Biden

#20. Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Moshe Sharett

#21. There are generations yet unborn,
whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

Andy Andrews