Charles de Gaulle Quotes

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles de Gaulle

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• I respect Lady Gaga very much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Respect
  • Very
  • Lady

• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Free
  • Respect

• Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Expectation

• Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Effort
  • Skill
  • Raining

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Security

• I've got a lot of other things I want to do.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Want
  • Things
  • Got

• We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Make
  • Seen

• A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Different
  • She
  • Experience

• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Respect
  • Language

• Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Respect

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Respect
  • Escape
  • Guards

• If we are not free, no one will respect us.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Free
  • Respect
  • Will

• My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

  

  Columba Bush
  • Life
  • Children
  • Respect

• Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • People
  • Respect
  • Rock

• I love when I think about the SummerSlam match against The Undertaker. What a great match, wonderful story. Two wrestlers that had such great respect for one another.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Respect
  • I Love
  • Match

• I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Chance

• I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country.

  

  James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
  • Life
  • Country

• I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Respect