Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Chirac

We believe you are on the right path and we have full confidence in you to continue your action, ... We know that the international effort will last for years to come, and France will fully play its part.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Charles Baudelaire

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Charles Baudelaire

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

Chaim Weizmann

There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

Louise Bourgeois

I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'm not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

William Shakespeare

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

John Sullivan

With the meltdown of the Net and the rise in unemployment, we'll see a return to punishing job hoppers. That's mostly because when the power shifts back to human resources, HR people with no power seem to get off on deciding what is acceptable,

Khalil Gibran

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

Doug Wilson

We are extremely pleased to extend Kyle's contract for three additional seasons, ... Kyle is a big, strong, punishing defenseman who is trending up in his career and he will continue to be one of our anchors on the back end.

Matt Baker

He's a big, punishing back who can get you those yards inside the red zone, and especially inside the 10.

Denny Leathers

He's been punishing the ball pretty good over the past five or six games, just line drives into the gaps. He got off to a relatively slow start and whether that was some tentativeness with his knee situation, I'm not sure. But he's been hitting his stride lately.

Stephen Waddell

CBC management is punishing these shows for a decline in ratings - a decline clearly brought on by its own brutal decision to lock out 5,000 professional workers last fall.

Lindy Ruff

I thought we got what we needed. We've gotten scoring chances out of them, they haven't been a liability when they've been on the ice, and they've had some punishing hits. Those guys have really served their purpose the last two games.

Lara Rhame

I think a lot of gloom still exists about the size of the deficit and the market is punishing the dollar for that.

David Brooks

It gave the offensive line the confidence they needed and they started getting better as the game went on. He's just a punishing runner. It hurts to tackle him. We don't get any negative yardage when he runs the ball because he is such a powerful runner.

Gene Johnson

We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that's very radio friendly, something that's going to touch someone's heart, maybe even something that's pop influenced. More than ever, on the 'Completely' album, we wanted to show more than one musical side of Diamond Rio.

Rich Miller

We've always said that's probably the widest mound in the league ? and maybe all of baseball. I really think the mound is too wide. That ball by Heintz was hit hard and then it hit the side of the mound. But that's not what lost us the game.

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

Nicole Miller

When I was on my honeymoon, I lost use of my right arm and right leg, and that's when we knew something was wrong. I was not totally paralyzed, but there was loss of sensation and feeling. The doctor on the ship could feel that my right side was weaker. They told me something was going on, but that it was not a medical emergency and that it didn't matter if I went off the boat that day or in four days.

Glen Richardson

You don't know who to believe and who not to believe sometimes because everybody has their own agenda. There are two sides to every story.

Fredrik Ljungberg

We're maybe not so physically strong. It doesn't really matter in the Champions League but maybe in the Premiership we have suffered a little bit for it, but I think in Europe we look really sharp. Unfortunately, we have not been able to cope with the physical side and we have suffered from that. In Europe we have been allowed to play more football.

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

Paul Johnston

We're so thin on numbers that when you look on the sidelines to put in somebody else, you just don't have it. We're going to try to keep working on it and try to get better.

Alex Pareene

We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

Rob Portman

To move Doha to a successful and ambitious conclusion, we must all make contributions that includes services, manufacturing, agriculture and other areas of the round. We need contributions from developed countries like the United States, but also developing countries. Every country must do its part.

Gernot Erler

We remain in talks about what should be decided there, and what the role of the United Nations should be.

Bob Krabbe

We're going to fight that vigorously. If the company were to have its way, we would be looking at losing literally thousands of jobs to overseas labour. This is something that we have not seen at any other airline. United (Airlines) in its worst days has never tried to do this.

John Cornyn

What this does is serve our national interest from the standpoint of increased security. It deals with our economic needs in terms of the work, but it also, I think, helps to address some of the root causes of illegal immigration by encouraging people to return with the savings and skills they've acquired in the United States.

Richard Boucher

What this does is it brings a common view, a unified message, a unified position of the United States and Europe,

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Tom Harkin

When we debate the impeachment of the president of the United States, this is something that affects every citizen of this country, and I believe they have a right again to witness that debate and to witness how and why we reach those decisions.

Greg Craig

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

Mark Lanier

What a jury is going to get is A, Merck fudged on the details. B, the fudge was in their favor. C, it was on purpose. D, Merck lied about fudging, or at least covered it up. And E, the most prestigious medical journal in the United States of America has called their hand on it and said this is unethical and wrong.