Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 18

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.

The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

In America it's good to show people you are fine, you're healthy, you're sporty, you're happy to do things, to live. And in France it's more like you don't have to show you have success.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Art must take reality by surprise.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Every country in the world protects its economy except the E.U. We would restore economic sovereignty and decision-making to France. We would protect strategic industries, and we would protect vital areas such as the energy sector. But we would not cut ourselves from the world. There could still be trade.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Humility is attentive patience.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They're so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Every time the ATP or WTA speak about changing something, you see the reaction. So I think they're doing a good job because those people are still watching tennis 40 years later and they are still fans so I'm not sure they should change because I don't know how the fans would feel.

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.

You never know: the next DJ Snake, the next Skrillex, the next big DJs might wait outside of the club. You gotta give back and listen to the next generation and show some love.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

I think I would choose to do things because they are interesting, because I like a character or because it's very well-written. Or because it makes sense.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

The most important thing is that I continue to improve.

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

A very good leader is someone who has a great team, it's all about the team. You only have 12 hours or 14 hours a day, if the people that are with you are doing a great job, you can have a great business. If not, it's not going to work.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I am feeling very well here and want to achieve much more with BVB and win titles. I am here and nowhere else: not at Arsenal, not at Barcelona, and not on the moon.

Cooking is chemistry, really.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

I'd take the Defensive Player of the Year any day over an All-Star selection. There's only one of these in the whole league every year.

Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.

My best friend, who I grew up with in Paris, is Indian. So, I've grown up listening to a lot of Bollywood songs and watching a lot of Bollywood movies, old and new.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.