Occupied France Quotes

#1. A chap wouldn't hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

Sara Sheridan

#2. If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.

Douglas Brinkley

#3. My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#4. His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

Iain Pears

#5. All but 50 of these officers and 200 of these sailors will return home to occupied France, rather than stay in Britain to fight the Germans. Their idea was to get out of the war

Charles Kaiser

#6. The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

James Hutton

#7. Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

Sarah Hall

#8. France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#9. Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you're hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you're doing.

Amber Naslund

#10. It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

Nina Easton

#11. If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Plato

#12. They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

G.H. Hardy

#13. I can't live without you. I haven't lived a day without you.

A.L. Jackson

#14. Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

LeCrae

#15. In the NBA, you can't run from guys. I think a lot of teams were surprised by my interviews, how nice and well-spoken I am as a player and as a person. I'm a guy who wants to learn.

Shabazz Muhammad

#16. And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

Barry Lyga

#17. Your eyes, they shine so bright
I wanna save that light
I can't escape this now
Unless you show me how

Anth

#18. If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

Julius Nyerere

#19. The quietness of spirit is an inner peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The perceived failings of leaders of other neutral or occupied European countries, including France, Spain, Sweden or Norway, or of the countries that fought alongside the Nazis, have not caught the public imagination in the English-speaking world in anything like the same way.

Clare O'Dea

#21. Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

George W. Bush

#22. What is your definition of skank?' I ask.
'A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows.

Megan McCafferty