Quotes About France

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.

My wife and I were actually driving in the south of France when we got the word that Kelly Clarkson had come out that 'The Plant Paradox' had changed her life. I'm a big fan of hers. I like her music and I would love to work with her.

France always had this balanced position that in so many conflicts was the voice of peace. I intend to maintain that. De Gaulle was pleading for a multipolar world.

I did a music festival in France. I'm not going to name names, but there were bigger bands and DJs on before me, and throughout their set, all I could hear them chanting was 'Hodor!' And I was, like, 'Oh, please stop! It's so disrespectful to the other acts!' In a way, obviously, I loved it, but it was kind of embarrassing at the same time.

Here in France, what we love is Life. And all the pleasures that go with it.

When I made my first film I was 25 years old, and that's pretty rare. Being so young my experience and the thing that I wanted to talk about was teenagehood, plus in France we have that strong tradition of the coming-of-age story being made as your first film.

I have always been proud and happy to wear France's colours. I have always been respectful of the team. But I need people to prove they really want me to play.

A good run is always good. It helps us to wear the colours of the France team.

Being in France means that I am surrounded by examples of nationalised services that work.

Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the French go for Jerry Lewis - enough said).

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.

My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

We found a pleasant little café where the men selected a type of pasta, but I chose an omelette. I had always thought that eggs were for breakfast, so I had never tried one, and I was not disappointed. It came up light, fluffy and stuffed with tiny shrimp. Every mouthful was a delight, and I began to see that appreciation of food was a way of life in France. It was accompanied by crusty bread so fresh it was still warm, and sweet butter.

He said he had no desire to live in a country that glorified violence and he found France more civilized.

Amy gritted her teeth. King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot! Jonah looked at his dad. Do we have souvenir chamber pots? No. His dad whipped out his phone. I'll make the call.

According to a recent condom-company survey, the average Hungarian has sex 131 times a year (behind only France and Greece), making them Europe's third-greatest liars.

I stood looking at the men—more my men now than ever before. Their lives, if they escaped with them, would be divided forever into Before the War, the War, and After, and between those divisions would stretch psychic no-man's-lands as desolate as any in France.

A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive—but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe.

In Paris the citizens had slaughtered defenseless women and children in the thousands. How could God permit it? And then, to make it worse, the Pope had sent a letter of congratulation to the king of France. That could not be God's will. Hard though it was to believe, the Pope had done wrong.

Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?

Os próprios exorcistas, às vezes, se tornavam vítimas de possessão, como acontecera em 1634, no convento ursulino de freiras em Loudun, na França. Dos quatro exorcistas jesuítas que tinham sido mandados para lidar com uma epidemia de possessão, três deles — os padres Lucas, Lactance e Tranquille —, além de serem possuídos, morreram logo depois, vítimas de um aparente ataque cardíaco causado por hiperatividade psicomotora ininterrupta: