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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.


Charles de Gaulle

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It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
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CRAIG BELLAMY A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON Truthfully, God always keeps His promises but we often break our promises.
JAIME CONTRERAS This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal...
FRANCIS BACON This may not be the most beautiful building at Charles de Gaulle. But practical things can have thei...
HUBERT FONTANEL This is the reason we cannot complain of life:it keeps no one against his will
SENECA As long as he keeps playing with (the swagger) and keeps his head up and plays with confidence, we'l...
JUSTIN GAGE True is the love of one who keeps his feelings when yours seam to have passed.
MARIANA FULGER Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of...
DONALD RUMSFELD I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half whic...
PETER DAVID True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us f...
JEAN COCTEAU No doubt he will be set free, for Lord Mansfield keeps a Black in his house which governs him and th...
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ANUJ SOMANY God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
LYNN REDGRAVE God always has another custard pie up his sleeve
LYNN REDGRAVE If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.
MARGARET FORSTER Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
SOPHOCLES Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeterie...
DONALD RUMSFELD There's always an element of surprise associated with it.
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G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
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DON FOSSELMAN He who keeps his cool best wins.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
YIDDISH PROVERB Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys
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MELVIN MADDOCKS The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
MAURICE BARRES Coach (Fred) Trinkle will have them prepared. He always has something up his sleeve.
JACK BAGLEY A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
FRANCIS BACON A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
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CHRIS FOX His velocity is picking up every week. He's got enough on it that he keeps them honest.
TODD WILKINSON Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt...!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
ED WOOD One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.
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SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
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CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, t...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE No nation has friends only interests
CHARLES DE GAULLE Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things...
CHARLES DE GAULLE In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfa...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so muc...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country th...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who tak...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, cell...
CHARLES DE GAULLE In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
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CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
CHARLES DE GAULLE To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I was France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE To add to golden numbers, golden numbers.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of chees...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that h...
CHARLES DE GAULLE China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Honest labour bears a lovely face.
CHARLES DE GAULLE You'll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLE People of character find a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I canno...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the inte...
CHARLES DE GAULLE What do you take me for, an idiot? [when asked if he was happy]
CHARLES DE GAULLE Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and m...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown
CHARLES DE GAULLE Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our...
CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)
CHARLES DE GAULLE One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing more advances authority than silence.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.
YVONNE DE GAULLE Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and...
CHARLES DE LINT I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....
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CHARLES DE LINT To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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CHARLES DE LINT Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
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CHARLES DE LINT The love of democracy is that of equality.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society ...
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CHARLES DE LINT I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy,...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you...
CHARLES DE LINT We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Libert...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are alread...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shap...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magi...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet an...
CHARLES DE LINT Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ...
CHARLES DE LINT Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
CHARLES DE LINT There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not nee...
CHARLES DE LINT I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the m...
CHARLES DE LINT I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same ti...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...
CHARLES DE LINT Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future gener...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
CHARLES DE LINT Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
CHARLES DE LINT Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilitie...
CHARLES DE LINT The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and m...
CHARLES DE LINT An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on bor...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Judas did not make only one kiss. (Judas n'a pas fait qu'une seule bise)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. - Mais elle fait avancer)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Close the door by leaving." Close the mouth by dying ... ("Ferme la porte en partant." - Ferme la bo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The black clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe. (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A kiss on one cheek makes her blush both cheeks. (Un bisou sur une joue - Fait rougir les deux joues...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoir...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles vo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatalit...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Kissing hides the lips; but shows our love. (S'embrasser cache les lèvres ; - Mais montre notre amo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE One kiss, two lips. One love, two bodies. (Un baiser, ce sont deux lèvres. - Un amour, ce sont deux...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
CHARLES DE LINT If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
CHARLES DE LINT No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent - Le passé, non l'avenir)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The waves lie down on the beach; Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s’allongent sur la p...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the politic...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Dinosaurs were big ; likewise, their bones. (Dinosaures furent grands ; - De même, leurs ossements....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il m...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE “We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free
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