Quotes About Petain

#1. Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.

Robert O. Paxton

#2. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Havelock Ellis

#3. The problem came down to this: Americans, who had invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the integrated circuit, no longer believed in the future.

George Packer

#4. I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

Wilson Mizner

#5. If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

John Masefield

#7. A young man named for a god of fucking
rode his palomino next to my dun.

Mark Wunderlich

#8. The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail

Adelaja Precious

#9. Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

Allen Klein

#10. I thought I'd find that Wholehearted people were just like me and doing all of the same things I was doing: working hard, following the rules, doing it until I got it right, always trying to know myself better, raising my kids exactly by the books ...

Brene Brown

#11. How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Charles Spurgeon

#12. Some things are so worthy that even to fail is glorious.

Jim Magwood

#13. When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

Ben Whishaw

#14. What I believe ... about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

Alvin R. Dyer

#15. Worrying is like a toothless dog gnawing on a bone.

Kathleen Fields