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'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

• 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

• 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

• I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

  

  David Chase
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  

  James Hillman
  • Cold
  • Depression

• Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Growth

• Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Paid

• An organized mind leads effortlessly to good decision-making.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Decision

• Ben Crenshaws, Ive got a good feeling speech.

  

  Steve Norman Spandau Ballet
  • Feeling
  • Speech

• I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.

  

  Eva Green
  • Quality
  • Person
  • Parties

• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • China
  • Remains
  • Wander

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

  

  Anatole France