Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 4
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Let them eat cake.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Film lovers are sick people.
I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.
Every country has the government it deserves.
While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity.
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
I always believe things are going to work out.
It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
At Rennes, I played more down the left wing, but also down the right and sometimes in midfield. At Dortmund, it was the same: I alternated wings. I don't have problems with the position I'll take up.
AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.
I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
I fear everyone. But I play without fear.
I qualify myself like a bottle of wine - the more I get older, the more it tastes sweet!
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.
I am not selfish.
Don't have rules, taboos, or limits.
Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.
I focus only on the work with my team-mates with Dortmund and Gabon.
On 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' I must insist that the sounds of the instrumentation are crucial to reflect what the movie should convey in terms of energy and emotion. It's not just the melody or the tune.
I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
Sometimes I do things that are not really the right way because I'm daring, in a way.
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
The less men think, the more they talk.
When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height - it's how to love yourself by moving.
I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.