Eric Cantona Quotes

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

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• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Different
  • History
  • Violence

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Time
  • Anxiety
  • Late

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Care
  • Laws

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Very

• I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Father
  • Know
  • More

• Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • American
  • History

• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Question
  • Learn

• The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Character
  • True
  • Health

• The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Wind
  • Rain
  • Storm

• People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Life
  • Wishes

• You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • World
  • Night
  • Sleep

• All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Children
  • Home
  • Struggle

• We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • World
  • Struggle