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VALERIE TRIERWEILER As long as the people realize that they have the power to initiate change,then change shall be the c...
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JOHN T. CHAMBERS society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the...
JARED DIAMOND Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in po...
JARED DIAMOND You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francoi...
EDI RAMA This is not going to change anything in the short-term (for prices) because most contracts are long-...
DANIEL SIMMONS I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
OSMAN RASHID Climate change is, in my view, long term, the single biggest issue that we face,
TONY BLAIR I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.
CHARLIE ERGEN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existenc...
LEON BOURGEOIS I see $15 as a possible turning point. In the short term it could be a top for this rally, but I wou...
JEFFREY RHODES I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC The measurements show long-term trends. Glaciers react to climate change, and warmer temperatures in...
ANDREAS BAUDER So many issues have never been reported. It's creating a sort of distortion and I think it is danger...
VINCENT BROSSEL You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp...
BOB MOAWAD I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS I want to rebuild this party, and I want to rebuild it long term.
MARC HOLTZMAN There is a long-term favorable backdrop to long-term securities in demand from the pension industry.
JASON EVANS Our soldiers have paid a tragic price to free over 50 million people. In the long term, their sacrif...
DAVID MCGREW Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want...
ANTONIN SCALIA I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES We believe this a long-term event, and potentially could last for a decade. It's a fundamental chang...
GREIG GAILEY We are not here to interfere, but just to make recommendations and to offer the continuing services ...
JENNIFER MCCOY Investors are sitting on profits in Mexico and are taking them now, given the nervousness in Argenti...
DAMIAN FRASER I wouldn't expect any symptoms in the short term, or long-term.
BRIAN TOAL I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
ISAAC MARION I definitely want to. It's part of my long-term plan.
DAVID MCKEE It's a long-term hope, but in the meantime we want to use the technology available today to make cle...
DANIEL BECKER Addressing all these threats to our long-term survival will clearly require a massive and coordinate...
PRINCE CHARLES Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Bri...
PAUL JOHNSON Planning for long-term care is not easy. Individual needs change over time as do the rules about pro...
ANDREW CROCKER Planning for long-term care is not easy. Individual needs change over time as do the rules about pro...
ANDREW B. CROCKER True investing is making a commitment to own a company, to participate in its business over the long...
BOB MILLEN This is a significant step. Our interest in the short term is in preserving opportunities for athlet...
DARRYL SEIBEL Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.
HENRY SAMUELI Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Francois is one of the best in his field.
HANS STURM This whole state is hurting right now. I know times are hard. I understand people are angry with Ben...
ALLEN RIVERS Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate ...
WILLIAM POLLARD a momentous change in our society.
CHRISTOPHER DUNN In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to bui...
KATHLEEN WYNNE We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe&...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in retu...
ROBERT ALLEN It's going to affect tourism in the short term, and the long term.
DARRELL BRYAN I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.
DAN GERTLER In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me hap...
BILL WATTERSON If women really wanted to change society, they could do it. I plan to change it. I just want to get ...
ALLY MCBEAL For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As...
EDWARD SNOWDEN I love Dennis. I want Dennis long-term. I love what Dennis does.
LESLIE ALEXANDER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... If you really want to change society, encourage self appreciation.
RéNé GAUDETTE What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In my view, the great long-term challenges today, apart from the most urgent need to tackle climate ...
PRINCE CHARLES Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN If you're a long-term investor, do you really want the same amount of money in Microsoft and (tracto...
PAUL MEEKS This doesn't really change our long-term growth strategy. We'll continue to center around Seattle.
BILL AYER A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long...
JEREMY CORBYN As long as people work when there's work available, we have no long-term plan to change our benefit ...
JOANN WEBER I think it's worth noting, but our initial take is that it's more about fine tuning than about a maj...
MARK SWARTZBERG In the short-term, you're probably not going to see much of a change.
ROBERT MCKINLEY The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its e...
TONY BLAIR Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, i...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER I think on the one hand, women should believe in their own rights as being equal under law to men, b...
SHUKRIA BARAKZAI They've implemented a short-term strategy that sacrifices long-term results. They want to create eno...
CHARLES WOLF Your long-term holdings you leave alone, but your shorter-term ones you may want to move.
JEFFREY HIRSCH I am a bit skeptical, ... Protectionism will not secure jobs in the long term.
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN A strong man instils confidence in the short term, but in the long term politics is about how people...
HUSAIN HAQQANI He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
TOM STOPPARD Due to the aging population in the U.S. and the gradual change in the healthcare service model from ...
HARRY WANG We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mis...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.
SHIV KHERA We expect to save money in the long term.
DICK HAMILTON If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't t...
JEFF BRIDGES To have a long term political influence the leaders of this movement need to translate the anger and...
LOUIS DESIPIO We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN There will be sentencing and some further consequences at that time. I think you either need a long-...
KURT COBAIN Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is...
HU JINTAO In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
GRACE PALEY The immediate returns aren't there but in the long term this is positive. There are two ways for sha...
ANDREAS SCHNELLER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to...
DANIEL DE LEON We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote put...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Being in the European Union has its advantages, and I think that is what the British are beginning t...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be co...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I woul...
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FRANCOIS HOLLANDE My adversary is the world of finance.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
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FRANCOIS NARS Tell the truth and shame the devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS I never thought make-up was like brain surgery.
FRANCOIS NARS How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
FRANCOIS FENELON Little opportunities should be improved.
FRANCOIS FENELON I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
FRANCOIS FENELON The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts...
FRANCOIS FENELON When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very w...
FRANCOIS FENELON Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbi...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those ...
FRANCOIS FENELON There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
FRANCOIS FENELON All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Bec...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
FRANCOIS MURIAC The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.
FRANCOIS DELSARTE Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
FRANCOIS FENELON The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.
FRANCOIS DELSARTE Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thor...
FRANCOIS FENELON If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exc...
FRANCOIS FENELON Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
FRANCOIS FéNELON I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS "Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS A crier of green sauce.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les b...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozill...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS You shall never want rope enough.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Make three bites of a cherry.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Performed to a T.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS How well I feathered by nest.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Hungry bellies have no cars. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS He did not care a button for it.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said E...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mo...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Debts and lies are generally mixed together
FRANCOIS RABELAIS You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguil...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
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FRANCOIS NARS Makeup is an accessory to fashion. You buy a bag, you buy shoes, you put on eyeliner, you buy a lips...
FRANCOIS NARS Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.
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FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more ...
FRANCOIS FENELON My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we h...
FRANCOIS NARS It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into somethin...
FRANCOIS NARS Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes ...
FRANCOIS NARS As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics ...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make p...
FRANCOIS HOUGAARD All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
FRANCOIS FENELON The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom s...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Even with - the best make-up in the world won't look good if you don't cleanse and exfoliate...
FRANCOIS NARS The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.
FRANCOIS HOUGAARD I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative ...
FRANCOIS NARS The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical nov...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having o...
FRANCOIS FENELON There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benev...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common...
FRANCOIS PINAULT More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
FRANCOIS GAUTIER If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate...
FRANCOIS FENELON Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shou...
FRANCOIS HOUGAARD Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Love truth, but pardon error.
FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE 'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral f...
FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very w...
FRANCOIS FéNELON Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
FRANCOIS CAVANNA I really wanted to have a different approach of beauty because when I came to America, they were sti...
FRANCOIS NARS Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings wh...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedie...
FRANCOIS FENELON I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
FRANCOIS NARS France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can suc...
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND I know all except myself.
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FRANCOIS FENELON So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]
FRANCOIS VILLON No clock is more regular than the belly
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FRANCOIS LELORD Frugality is for the vulgar.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Protocol is everything.
FRANCOIS GIULIANI My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve...
FRANCOIS NARS I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolsid...
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FRANCOIS PINAULT But where are the snows of yesteryear?
FRANCOIS VILLON Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON My days are gone a-wandering.
FRANCOIS VILLON Brother humans who live after us, do not harden your hearts against us.
FRANCOIS VILLON We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON In this world, you do your job, a good job, and that's what counts.
FRANCOIS NARS Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put ...
FRANCOIS JACOB Everything has to go well for him in a race now, so we'll have to see about the future. It's too soo...
FRANCOIS DOUMEN A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND I think less is more when it comes to make-up; this really helps achieve a lighter complexion. Heavy...
FRANCOIS NARS One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
FRANCOIS JACOB I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Mic...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, mor...
FRANCOIS NARS I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only se...
FRANCOIS SAGON Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you t...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and...
FRANCOIS NARS You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
FRANCOIS NARS You recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free pa...
FRANCOIS QUESNAY purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on obje...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT Film lovers are sick people.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT