A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.


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FRANCOIS FENELON
I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
FRANCOIS NARS
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can suc...
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND
I know all except myself.
FRANCOIS VILLON
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must be...
FRANCOIS FENELON
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]
FRANCOIS VILLON
No clock is more regular than the belly
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhanc...
FRANCOIS NARS
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal ...
FRANCOIS LELORD
Frugality is for the vulgar.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Protocol is everything.
FRANCOIS GIULIANI
My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve...
FRANCOIS NARS
I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolsid...
FRANCOIS NARS
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't the...
FRANCOIS PINAULT
But where are the snows of yesteryear?
FRANCOIS VILLON
Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON
My days are gone a-wandering.
FRANCOIS VILLON
Brother humans who live after us, do not harden your hearts against us.
FRANCOIS VILLON
We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON
In this world, you do your job, a good job, and that's what counts.
FRANCOIS NARS
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put ...
FRANCOIS JACOB
Everything has to go well for him in a race now, so we'll have to see about the future. It's too soo...
FRANCOIS DOUMEN
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND
I think less is more when it comes to make-up; this really helps achieve a lighter complexion. Heavy...
FRANCOIS NARS
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
FRANCOIS JACOB
I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Mic...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT
In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, mor...
FRANCOIS NARS
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only se...
FRANCOIS SAGON
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you t...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and...
FRANCOIS NARS
You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
FRANCOIS NARS
You recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free pa...
FRANCOIS QUESNAY
purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on obje...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT
Film lovers are sick people.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT