#us

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#drop #drown #every #fair #only

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#harmonize #heard #i #mine #taken

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#else #fast #feet #strategy #useless

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#begins #conscious #freedom

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#because #clothes #communicating #could #i

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#because #briefly #chiefly #far #few

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#certain #equally #every #exclusive #fault

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#away #clarified #darkness #exhausted #go

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#composite #distinguishing #factors #important #into

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#dustin #dustin hoffman #fan #hoffman #i