France Quotes - Page 8

• If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

  Lewis Gordon

  Beach, Swim, Doubt

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• Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.

  Diana Vreeland

  People, One Day, Next

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than
  is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal
  investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
  France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
  because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other
  the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the
  province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond
  life, beyond time, into eternity.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Philosophy, Drama, Heart

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.11, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

  Thomas Piketty

  Discipline, Political, Intellectual

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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• The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Fighting, Army, Organization

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Thinking, Evil, Canada

  "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  Camille Flammarion

  Teacher, Mean, Independent

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• French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France.

  Valentino Garavani

  Believe, Adorable, People

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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• Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

  Daryl Hall

  Cousin, Circles, Wife

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• If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

  Pierre Salinger

  Country, Winning, Ifs

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• When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

  Didier Drogba

  Parent, Far Away, Cried

  "The Premiership's French foreign legion" by Rob Draper, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

  Grant Wood

  Iowa, Appreciate

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• You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

  Jacques Anquetil

  Water, Minerals, Mineral Water

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• John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

  Mickey Rooney

  Friendship, Honor, Clubs

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• I love France. France is a nice place.

  Bubba Watson

  Nice

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• It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.

  Christian Blanc

  Fighting, Air, Groups

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• I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Stories

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• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Men, Rocks

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• But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Forever, Champion

  "Every Second Counts". Book by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins Copyright, www.today.com. 2003.

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• France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

  James May

  Country

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

  Jenny Shipley

  Home, Decision, Storm

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• Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Government, Tyrants

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.233, Random House

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