Sorbonne France Quotes & Sayings

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die. April 9, 1916 Sorbonne — Anatole France

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. — C.S. Lewis

All of these jobs required an education and therefore excluded women, who were not allowed into many universities. Although the University of London admitted women from 1877, it was nearly 70 years later in 1946 that the University of Cambridge did the same. In France, the Sorbonne admitted women in 1880 but two other Grandes Ecoles only started to accept women in the 1960s? It was only in the 1960s that Harvard University, Princeton University and New York University allowed women to be granted PhDs. Opportunities for women in the professions were therefore limited or non-existent. But there were jobs to be had in the unskilled work produced by Taylorism, with women replacing men in many countries in Europe and North America because they were cheaper to employ. — Binna Kandola

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues ... — Freya Stark

We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think we have. — Michael Josephson

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function — John P. Kotter

The wisest man has something yet to learn. — George Santayana

Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it. — Gabrielle Zevin

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. — Francis Of Assisi

The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most. — Ban Ki-moon

I suggest you leave now, or you'll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting."
"Tie us down?"
"And gag you," Joseph cheerfully reminded them. — Laura Kreitzer

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book. — Emily Gould