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Quotes by French Authors
"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."
"In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people."
"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."
"There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence."
"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."
"Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread."
"You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done."
"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
"I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge."
"The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you."
"Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there."
"People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice."
"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it."
"Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes."
"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
"A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing."
"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."
"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."
"The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights."
"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."
"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."
"We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!"
"My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own."
"There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man."
"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."
"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave."
"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it."
"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."
"Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals."
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