Storming Of The Bastille Quotes & Sayings

Asking questions were the most important thing. — Franz Kafka

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself — Sidney Lumet

I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it. — Kaki King

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl! — Kathryn Tucker Windham

We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet as late as halfway through 1792, most of the familiar images of the revolution had yet to occur. Louis XVI was still king, and the Assembly was negotiating a new constitutional arrangement for the monarchy, not so different from Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688. — Mike Jay

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. — Chester Bowles

I loved him for a full year and then, in one night, all my wishing came apart. — Paula McLain

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. — Baltasar Gracian

out on a limb to help me and I don't — Tara Sivec

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels ... tacky. — Edmund White

It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do. — Richard Dawkins

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. — Guy Finley

Aujourd'hui, rien.
That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille. — Jo Walton