Charles de Gaulle Quotes

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles de Gaulle

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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Man
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Military

• According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • New
  • Virtue
  • Ethics

• Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Food
  • Yourself
  • Away

• Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Women
  • Problem

• I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Sleep

• I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • American
  • Support
  • Health

• I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Rich

• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Government
  • Own
  • Oil

• All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• My music lives because of real players.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Real
  • Players

• Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • May
  • Society

• Die Technologie enthüllt das aktive Verhalten des Menschen zur Natur, den unmittelbaren Produktionsprozesss seines Lebens, damit auch seiner gesellschaftlichen Lebensverhältnisse und der ihnen entquellenden geistigen Vorstellungen.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

  

  W. H. Auden

• : I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.

  

  Larry Wall

• My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

  

  Prince William
  • Life
  • Caring
  • Thoughtful

• It was nice to wear a suit at a young age, it's different from a school uniform.

  

  Zelo
  • Different
  • School
  • Age

• In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Political
  • Perfect
  • Religious

• The basic work schedule for me is whenever I'm not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it's most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Work
  • Important
  • Kids

• And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Waiting

• When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

  

  Charles de Gaulle