Anatole France Quotes

And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.

Anatole France

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• 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beginning
  • Solitude
  • Limit

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Doubt
  • Lead
  • Hatred

• Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Nations
  • Exhausted

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
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• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

  

  Edmund White
  • Positive
  • Enemy
  • Gay

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Song
  • Being
  • Lyrics

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Together
  • Thought
  • Seeing

• As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Done
  • Character
  • Single

• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Work
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done

• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• The problem is, when Oprah lost all that weight, her head didn't get any smaller. And so she looks kind of like a person carrying a balloon.

  

  Dave Barry
  • She
  • Lost

• Me and Miz are one and the same. I share some of the qualities he has and I need to learn some things from him, but there's absolutely no jealousy here between the two of us.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Quality
  • Needs
  • Share

• And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.

  

  Anatole France
  • Night
  • Rock