Anatole France Quotes

Nous avons des remèdes pour faire parler les femmes; nous n'en avons pas pour les faire taire.

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• I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Myself

• Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Way
  • Working

• I don't do anything political on Sundays.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Political
  • Anything
  • Sundays

• I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Person
  • Living
  • Reputation

• You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • You
  • Find

• The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • People
  • Character
  • Future

• 5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Care
  • Phone
  • Stressful

• I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Paid
  • Dues
  • Trenches

• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Want
  • Play

• I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Husband
  • View
  • Point Of View

• My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Obvious
  • Other

• It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Box

• You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • You
  • Out
  • Network

• I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Sometimes

• True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Success
  • Idea

• I think it's wonderful and important for there to be so much choice for customers. Wouldn't it be such a bore if we all created, liked and wore the same thing?

  

  Anya Hindmarch
  • Choice
  • Created
  • Customers

• But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Work
  • Science
  • Technology

• Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

  

  Lena Olin

• We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Why
  • Home
  • Travel

• Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Literature

• Nous avons des remèdes pour faire parler les femmes; nous n'en avons pas pour les faire taire.

  

  Anatole France