Top 35 Monnet Quotes
#1. I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
Gerrit Smith
#2. I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.
Ethan Embry
#3. Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
Jean Monnet
#4. Building Union among people not cooperation between states
Jean Monnet
#5. Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about being long-suffering-no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk.
John Eldredge
#6. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
Alice Schroeder
#7. There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.
Jean Monnet
#8. Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.
Jean Monnet
#9. Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
Jean Monnet
#10. To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
Jean Monnet
#11. Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.
Jean Monnet
#12. But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.
Thomas Paine
#13. Girl, you keep givin' up. The only way sure to fail is to give up,
Kristen Ashley
#14. Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
Jean Monnet
#15. Europe's nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.
Jean Monnet
#16. Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.
Jean Monnet
#17. Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.
Jean Monnet
#18. I really believed that fear is contagious.
Joel Osteen
#19. People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
Jean Monnet
#20. The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.
Jean Monnet
#21. Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.
Norris Church Mailer
#22. Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.
Bhagat Singh
#23. Regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if..." "If only... " "I wonder what would have..."
You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.
Trevor Noah
#24. Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
Amanda Hocking
#25. The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.
Jean Monnet
#26. People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.
Jean Monnet
#27. There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. ( ... ) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.
Jean Monnet
#28. Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
Jean Monnet
#29. The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
Jean Monnet
#30. Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.
Jean Monnet
#31. Corporatists like Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet were bent on constructing the Brussels-based bureaucracy as a democracy-free zone.
Yanis Varoufakis
#32. Via money Europe could become political in five years
Jean Monnet
#33. Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.
Paul Hoffman
#34. Mental understanding cannot change our life, unless it becomes real understanding.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
Kurt Vonnegut
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