Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Long
  • Remember
  • You

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Moments

• Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Know
  • Play
  • Role

• I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Actor

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writers
  • Readers
  • Publishers

• I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Sadness

• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Different
  • Words
  • Religion

• Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Now
  • Fact
  • Matters

• If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Happy
  • Company
  • Partner

• People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

  

  Carl Olson
  • People
  • American
  • Bad

• Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Together
  • Education

• I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Different
  • Movies

• Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Think
  • Military

• Always the sightseers: open-mouthed, disbelieving. There was a force for desolation loose in their midst which could consume their lives at a glance, surely they could see that? But they’d watch anyway, willing to embrace the void if it came with sufficient razzmatazz.

  

  Clive Barker

• With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Dust
  • White Man
  • Chinaman

• I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.

  

  Joe Pesci
  • Wife

• True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Compassion
  • Coin
  • Restructuring

• Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

  

  Charles de Gaulle