French Swear Quotes & Sayings

Sir, to deal with foreign rulers is to deal with lies and deceits. All the time. A French king, a Spanish emperor - any one of them - will swear he is your friend, while in truth he has his own agenda that he is pursuing mercilessly, behind your back. It is the way the world works. The key is to recognise that, accept it, and keep moving. Keep stepping lightly as the squares on a chequerboard shift beneath your feet — H.M. Castor

You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds. — Tana French

I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience. — David Icke

It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli. — Melville Davisson Post

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power. — Frederick Lenz

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words. — Clint Eastwood

I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch. — Woody Allen

Why did you love me so? I'm a throwaway girl. I warned you many times, but you didn't believe me. Now you see I was right and it's made you very angry. — Camilla Trinchieri

Whether you are five years old and irresistibly drawn to the piano in your home, or you are an adult who suddenly falls in love with music and decides to take lessons, the knowledge that you belong in the world of music is deep and indestructible. It is part of your basic nature, as much as the color of your eyes or the sound of your voice. Even your choice of instrument might feel choiceless; you hear a piano or a cello and somehow know that that is the instrument you must play. — Madeline Bruser

I've done a lot of stupid things because of my fear of taking a chance on someone. But the most stupid thing I ever did was push you away. — Jennifer Shirk

To survive today, other animals must endure global warming, pollution, and fewer habitats. More tragically, they must endure the silence of human hearts. — Anthony Douglas Williams

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide. — Dalai Lama

You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something
imagine that
and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine. — Tana French

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible
it is a form of immortality — Djuna Barnes