#french

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#asked #even #forces #french #i

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French. ↗

— Heinz Guderian

#french #sometimes #superiors #than #tougher

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#balanced budget #budget #budget deficit #constitution #deficit

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#napoleon #age

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#calm #dynamic #french #language #makes

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#been #french #greek #i #italian

92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#death

The French revolution taught us the rights of man. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#french revolution #man #revolution #rights #taught

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#bother #calculated #far #foreigner #french

I decided to write the book I wanted to read ↗

— David A. Lottes

#coming-of-age-stories #french-in-north-america #frontier-and-pioneer-life #historical-fiction #native-americans