“The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.” WorldImportantPastFormFeltMemoriesCasesCupsFranceChampionshipInjuredWorld CupGreat Memories Author:Michel Patini
“Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?” PeopleBelieveLittlesLongImportantUseInspirationSpiritualDesireFaithBuildingDutyTasteUnderstoodGardenCrossesDirectVery GoodChristian InspirationalFranceSpiritual LifeBelieve In MeSpainCastles Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“It was in France that I first learned about food. And that even the selection of a perfect pear, a ripe piece of Brie, the freshest butter, the highest quality cream were as important as how the dish you were going to be served was actually cooked.” FirstsImportantPerfectQualityPiecesHighestFranceDishesCreamSelectionRipePearsBrie Author:Robert Carrier
“This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.” PeopleImportantWholeLawNumbersCenturyTheoryIndustryDestructionFinancialDearProsperityRuinsFranceStarvation Author:Andrew Dickson White
“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.” PeopleMenSaidImportantStatesGovernmentPoliticalThreeStreetsCenturyShapesEnglandPoliceExtraordinaryFrancePrivacyRegulationSpyCoercionSurveillanceManualsLieutenantsChattingInformers Book:The Formation of national States in Western Europe Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe
“Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayImportantShowsTodayDiesComedyJokesTragedySupposed To BeFranceParisTonightThink TwiceComedy Shows Author:Conan O'Brien
“When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.” WorldFeelsMadeImportantFunnyBeautifulHouseWorryCuttingDown AndPhonesSpendingFranceBeautiful LifeBannedSpending TimeStop Worrying Author:Johnny Depp