Francois I Quotes & Sayings

I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable. — Francois Hollande

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959. — Francois Englert

I die of thirst beside the fountain. — Francois Villon

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I think I've just thought up something important, — Francois Jacob

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me. — Francois Pinault

As for me, said the little marquise, I am too used to being a girl, and I want to remain one all my life. How could I bring myself to wear a man's hat?

And I, said the marquis, have used a sword more than once without disgracing myself. I'll tell you about my adventures some day. Let's continue as we are, then. Beautiful marquise, enjoy all the pleasures of your sex, and I shall enjoy all the pleasures of mine. — Francois-Timoleon De Choisy

I am the president of the youth of France. — Francois Hollande

A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline. — Francois Hollande

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French. — Francois Hollande

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps. — John Green

I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything. — Francois Arnaud

I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart. — Francois Arago

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets. — Francois Truffaut

In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language . I have expressed my opinion concerning a number of English writers; it is very possible that I may be mistaken, that my admiration and my censure may be equally misplaced, and that my conclusions may appear impertinent and ridiculous on the other side of the Channel. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office! — Francois Englert

I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose ... — Francois Rabelais

I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results. — Francois Hollande

In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter, those votes can make the difference. I am obviously not in favour of a "community electorate," however, pressure is so great on them that I can easily understand how it can affect their votes. — Tariq Ramadan

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. — Francois Rabelais

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. — Francois Hollande

He didn't necessarily think that it was okay, but when a psychiatrist says 'okay', it just means 'I understand what you're saying. — Francois Lelord

The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls. — Francois Hollande

I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom." — Francois Laurent D'Arlandes

Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility. — Francois Fenelon

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate. — Francois Rabelais

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago. — Francois Guizot

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country. — Francois Fenelon

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. — Francois Truffaut

I am writing history and i do so with my eyes almost always full of tears — Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. — Francois Fenelon

I drink for the thirst to come. — Francois Rabelais

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. — Francois Truffaut

I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there. — Francois Arnaud

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire. — Charles-Francois Dupuis

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental. — Francois Hougaard

Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we had passed out of sight of La Muette. Astonished I cast a glance towards the river. I perceived the confluence of the Oise. And naming the principal bends of the river by the places nearest them, I cried, "Passy, St. Germain, St. Denis, Sevres!" — Francois Laurent D'Arlandes

It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion. — Etienne Francois, Duc De Choiseul

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them. — Francois Mauriac

Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous. — Francois Rabelais

I build only living stones
men. — Francois Rabelais

Tell me what you read and I will tell you who you are. — Francois Mauriac

I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and the writing and the style of acting, and we look at them perhaps in a way to see what we can steal from them, too, to make our own films more modern. — Francois Cluzet

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet ... to live better in five years than we do today. — Francois Hollande

I drink no more than a sponge. — Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out. — Francois Rabelais

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster. — Francois Hollande

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future. — Francois Rabelais

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people. — Francois Duvalier

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics. — Francois Hollande

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity ... makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel. — Francois Fenelon

10:13 Your situation is not unique! Every human life faces contradictions! Here is the good news: God believes in your freedom! He has made it possible for you to triumph in every situation that you will ever encounter! 10:14 My 1dearly loved friends! Escape into his image and likeness in you where the 2distorted image (2idolatry) loses its attraction! (Dearly loved friends, translated as 1agapetos; to know the agape love of God is to know our true identity! The word, agape, comes from agoo, meaning to lead as a shepherd guides his sheep, and pao, to rest, like in Psalm 23, "he leads me beside still waters where my soul is restored; by the waters of reflection my soul remembers who I am! Now I can face the valley of the shadow of death and fear no evil!") — Francois Du Toit

The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled lands. — Jean-Francois Millet

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today. — Francois Hollande

I do not drink more than a sponge. — Francois Rabelais

When I travel officially ... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere. — Francois Hollande

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language. — Francois Hollande

Please tell me it's going to rain today, Francois.'
'Ah!' he smiled. (This was obviously familiar territory.) 'I regret to inform you that the forecast calls for nothing but sunshine.'
'Relentless sunshine,' she corrected him. — Kathleen Tessaro

I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing. — Francois Mauriac

The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it. — Francois Hollande

I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution. — Francois Hollande

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds. — Francois Hollande

The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues. — Francois Arnaud

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it! — Nicolas Sarkozy

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price. — Francois Fenelon

I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands. — Francois Fenelon

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. — Francois Gautier

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it — Francois Rabelais

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue ... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge. — Francois Rabelais

I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel. — Francois Fenelon

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes. — Francois Hollande

As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always hated making of featurettes and special features on DVDs. I think it breaks the spell. — Francois Arnaud

When I was a young man, King Francois of France greatly admired my bare buttocks. I have that information only by hearsay, of course, because my buttocks were in the king's chateau of Chambord while I was here in Italy. — Alan Fisk

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films. — Francois Truffaut

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. — Francois Truffaut

I commit myself to serve my country. — Francois Hollande

I had turned my anxiety into my profession. — Francois Jacob

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut

She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking candy bar. [ ... ] She reached down [ ... ] and chose a Galaxy bar [ ... ] "I'm going home." "You didn't pay for that," Francois shouted after her. "Fuck you, Frank," she shouted back and kept going. — J.D. Robb

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense. — Francois Arnaud

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. — Francois Rabelais

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film. — Francois Truffaut

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France. — Francois Cluzet

The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis. — Francois Hollande

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor. — Francois Rabelais

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine. — Francois Mitterrand

Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What did I say! It is not a Science for a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged. — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Hesitating, at the threshold of various illusory paths of life, I considered them one by one, without daring to pursue any one of them. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

I have given myself one objective, to be the long-awaited successor to Francois Mitterrand. — Francois Hollande

Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from them. It began with the invention of a possible world, or a fragment thereof, which was then compared by experimentation with the real world. And it was this constant dialogue between imagination and experiment that allowed one to form an increasingly fine-grained conception of what is called reality. — Francois Jacob

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing. — Francois Hollande

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. — Francois Jacob

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition. — Francois Fenelon

I have a regular, normal private life. — Francois-Henri Pinault

I go to see a Greater Perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

Observe that for the novelist who has remained Christian, like myself, man is someone creating himself or destroying himself. He is not an immobile being, fixed, cast in a mold once and for all. This is what makes the traditional psychological novel so different from what I did or thought I was doing. The human being as I conceive him in the novel is a being caught up in the drama of human salvation, even if he doesn't know it. — Francois Mauriac

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests. — Nicolas Sarkozy