Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

Napoleon Bonaparte

France will always be a great nation.

Richard Martin

Everyone in France speculated that Marseille would be the first place to burn. You need to live here to understand why it did not.

Leslie Fiedler

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

John Maynard Keynes

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

Alain Juppe

This is the trial of a man, but it is also that of a system and a regime. France must look its past in the face,

Michael Krepon

This is a very serious competition. If present trends continue, India and Pakistan could very well have greater nuclear capabilities than France and Great Britain, looking down the road.

William Shakespeare

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Juliette Binoche

I wanted to have an international career, which I have, and be free to work with whoever I wanted to work with. My instinct was to go back to France afterwards. I went to do a small film, then I went back and forth.

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Robert Pattinson

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

W. Somerset Maugham

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Aprilynne Pike

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Ram Dass

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

Lily King

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

Jeb Bush

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

David Andrews

The economics were not as strong as obviously the Robinsons would've liked.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Karl Marx

As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.

Millicent Fenwick

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Milton Friedman

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.