"The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea."

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Source : Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)

Georges Clemenceau

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I've spent most of my life in L.A. and I'm still amazed at things that I don't know about the place. There are a lot of places I've never been to yet and I may never even make it. There's so much here and there's so much of a variety in terms of culture now. It's amazing. It's all here in one big city. In a lot of ways, the city is unique in the world because it's hard to find another city that has the diversity and range. It's a microcosmic planet, if you look at it that way. And in that sense, it's very much an experimental city.”
“Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.”
“Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.”
“My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.”
“We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.”
“Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.”
“I've always been a bit of a car freak.”

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