"There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power."

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

#Political Quotes #Elements Quotes #France Quotes

“An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.”
“Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.”
“The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.”
“Target SME's and you target women because that is where they access the business sector.”
“When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.”

Source : "Erin Gray, then and now: an interview" by Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.
“Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.”
“In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.”
“When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.”

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