#y

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#convincing #french #fully #i #majority

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#happy #home #i #joy #music

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it! ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#held #him #honestly #i #i do

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#europe #france #hope #i #i hope that

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#competition #i #illiteracy #poverty #unemployment

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#away #campaign #challenges #committing #debate

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#capacity #evil #good #let us #man

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain. ↗

— Elena Ferrante

#divorce #elena-ferrante #love #pain #the-days-of-abandonment

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#job #love #nobody #successful #work