Jospin Quotes & Sayings

Let go with me. Let me comfort you with my body ... there's no shame in forgetting for a night even if you know you'll remember in the morning. — Tiffany Reisz

The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it. — Cassey Ho

To promote the process of European integration, we must improve an institutional mechanism already existing in the European Union, reinforced co-operation, by making it more flexible and effective. This approach allows a few states to move faster and further ... We are all aware that this mechanism is vital. — Lionel Jospin

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. — Winston S. Churchill

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations. — Lionel Jospin

I remain attached to my nation. — Lionel Jospin

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. — Michael Moorcock

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. — Lionel Jospin

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. — Horace

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France. — Lionel Jospin

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. — Mary Wortley Montagu

That was the way most people were - stupid. — Jonathan Franzen

Sport is my passion but I have a way to go. — Seal

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable. — Lionel Jospin

Yes to market economy, no to market society. — Lionel Jospin

Age truly is a state of mind. Are you 30, 40, or 50 something because of the number of revolutions around the sun or because someone told you so? Neither. You are as old or as young as you want to be. — Fritz Franke

We must lead in a different way ... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation. — Lionel Jospin

It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it — Lionel Jospin

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. — Lionel Jospin

The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously thrive and better the soil/rotation, not just the flavor. — Dan Barber

The willow is full plumage and is no help, with its insinuating whispers.
Rendevous, it says. Terraces;
the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever. The summer dress rustles against the flesh of my thighs, the grass grows underfoot, at the edges of my eyes there are movements, in the branches; feathers, flittings, grace notes, tree into bird, metamorphosis run wild. Goddesses are possible now and the air suffuses with desire ...
Winter is not so dangerous. I need hardness, cold, rigidity; not this heaviness, as if I'm a melon on a stem, this liquid ripeness. — Margaret Atwood

I do not separate France from Europe. — Lionel Jospin