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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• 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

• BULLLLLSHIT!!

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag

• For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

  

  James Norton
  • Great
  • Character

• We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Up
  • Commitment

• The artist is the antenna of the race.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Artist
  • Race
  • Antenna

• I owe a lot to my parents.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Parents

• Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Dream
  • Respect
  • German

• None of us has the right to assess the value of a human existence. All must be held valuable, or none. The death of Christ and the death of Socrates," Fen added dryly, "suggest that our judgements are scarcely infallible...And the evil of Nazism lay precisely in this, that a group of men began to differentiate between the value of their fellow-beings, and to act on their conclusions. It isn't a habit which I, for one, would like to encourage.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Conclusions
  • Socrates
  • Human Existence

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

  

  Anatole France