Top 27 Quotes About Fait
#1. I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
Vera Brittain
#2. Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world.
[Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#3. Two Leilas seemed to be battling it out inside me. The first was outraged that he still considered it a fait accompli that I'd give in to him, and the second ... that slutty bitch was wondering what Vlad looked like naked.
Jeaniene Frost
#4. Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
Alexander Graham Bell
#5. Only six people in the entire Galaxy understood the principle on which the Galaxy was governed, and they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait accompli: he was ideal presidency fodder.*
Douglas Adams
#6. One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
Jane Austen
#7. L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.
Blaise Pascal
#8. God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)
Charles De Leusse
#9. You've got this look I can't describe,
You make me feel like I'm alive,
When everything else is au fait,
Without a doubt you're on my side,
Heaven has been away too long,
Can't find the words to write this song,
Oh ... Your love
Corinne Bailey Rae
#10. Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
Charles Baudelaire
#11. An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait.
Leo Tolstoy
#13. By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.
Ruth Ozeki
#14. The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to
ironically-fait h!
Ravi Zacharias
#15. Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential
with his sense of what he is capable of.
Joseph Brodsky
#16. One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
Jeremy Rifkin
#17. The dress does not make the monk.
[Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
Francois Rabelais
#18. It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.
Robert Godfrey
#19. No less than 99.5 per cent of the world's habitable space by volume, according to one estimate, is fundamentally - in practical terms completely - off limits to us. It
Bill Bryson
#20. Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?
Elie Wiesel
#21. Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
David Gemmell
#23. But the heart of a woman is such that, however arid it may become when the winds of prejudice and the demands of etiquette have blown across it, there always remains one corner that is radiant and fertile
-the one that God has dedicated to maternal love.
Alexandre Dumas
#24. But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
William Golding
#25. As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#26. First crush, first kiss, first time I saw the ocean
And dug my toes in the sand
Baseball and summer nights, casting out when the fish first bite,
First time I got a Chevy in my hands
I thought nothing can touch that by a mile
I thought nothing can make that moment seem so worthwhile
Scotty McCreery
#27. Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
Ethan Hawke
