Laval Quotes

#1. The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

Jean Chretien

#2. It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

Pierre Laval

#3. One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

Raf Simons

#4. We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

Pierre Laval

#5. She hadn't seen gold since she'd last
been to her father's home, when she would sneak off to meet him.
Smiling at the brief memory of, as her mother called him, the one
who gave me the seed which allowed for your presence.

G.A. Aiken

#6. But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Pierre Laval

#7. She's really not my kind of girl - most of them have tattoos or nose rings - but there's something about her smile. She smiles like she's in love with whoever she's looking at.
She smiled at me a few months ago. I've been trying to get her to do it again ever since.

Jaye Murray

#8. I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

Pierre Laval

#9. O-kay. Kind of freaky. I'm now standing in an actual tomb, in pitch darkness, with only a vampire to keep me company. Last week if you'd sworn on a stack of Bibles that I'd be okay with all of this, I wouldn't have believed you.

Mari Mancusi

#10. In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

#11. Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

Beau Bridges

#12. Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Richard P. Feynman

#13. I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Pierre Laval

#14. France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

Pierre Laval

#15. Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

Pierre Laval

#16. If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it's like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It's hard to go back to the original shape.

Haruki Murakami

#17. In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

Pierre Laval

#18. It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Pierre Laval

#19. I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

Pierre Laval

#20. Sex is an emotion in motion.

Mae West

#21. Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists.

Chris Hedges

#22. In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

Amish Tripathi

#23. I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

Pierre Laval