Francois Mitterrand Quotes

All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.

Francois Mitterrand

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• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Fruit
  • Chicken

• I love anything to do with history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Anything

• Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

  

  Victoria Billings
  • Fine
  • Twins
  • Togetherness

• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Commitment

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Style
  • Suits
  • Stick

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Personality
  • Media
  • Take

• It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • World
  • Future
  • Want

• When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Great
  • You
  • Product

• I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Myself
  • Discipline
  • Try

• The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Practice

• Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.

  

  David Hoffman
  • People
  • Faith
  • Lost

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.

  

  Francois Mitterrand
  • World
  • Eye
  • Prove