France Quotes - page 36

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not. (Martin Rees)
But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do not have anything to fear now concerning internal wars or their neighbors invading France. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime. View quote
David Puttnam
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. View quote
Gustave Courbet
Each man has two countries, I think: His own, and France. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
that we could not turn them over to France and Germany-our commercial rivals in the Orient - that would be bad business and discreditable. View quote
William McKinley
I learned my trade by going out every evening as a young man," he told art historian Rosamond Bernier. "I went to every pretty house in France and Italy and other places too, and I remembered them all, even down to what was on each little table. View quote
Vincent Fourcade
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America - burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion, he thought. View quote
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Despite a relative control over expenditure in 2013, the persistence of a very high public deficit (4.3%) was mainly due to an unprecedented and unexpected drop in tax revenue which confirms the existence of a tax tolerance threshold, specific to each country, and which may have been reached in France. Above this threshold, any tax increase has a counterproductive effect as compulsory taxes stifle activity by further weakening the economy's growth potential. View quote
Éric Pichet
Murder rarely goes unpunished in Britain or France; here the reverse is true. The same survey reports many times as many burglaries in parts of America as in all England; and, whereas a very high percent of burglars in England are caught and punished, in parts of our country only a very low percent are finally punished. The comparison can not fail to be disturbing. (Calvin Coolidge)
I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
I am against the Islamisation of France! View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. View quote
Sebastian Bach
I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France. View quote
Yogi Berra
The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there. View quote
Johnny Depp
Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary. View quote
Alan Hansen
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
The further off from England, the nearer is to France - Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. View quote
Lewis Carroll
[In ancient Rome, ] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler. ... You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control. A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling, there's corruption. (George Lucas)
I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world. View quote
Jane Fonda
It would be easy to point out a paragraph in St. Augustine, or a sentence of Grotius that outweighs in influence the Acts of fifty Parliaments, and our cause owes more to Cicero and Seneca, to Vinet and Tocqueville, than to the laws of Lycurgus or the Five Codes of France. View quote
John W. Campbell
Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French. View quote
Jean Reno
In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous. View quote
Jean Reno