Pen Quotes

Trade has always existed, but we used to defend our strategic interests. Could you imagine the United States allowing French engineering giant Alstom to purchase General Electric? I don't think so.

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! I believe in a Europe of nation-states.

I place the blame with our own leaders who are not defending our interests. A strong euro is ruining our economy.

I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.

My warning is: Be careful Angela Merkel. If you don't see the suffering that has been imposed on the rest of the European people, then Germany will make itself hated.

Angela Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.

Angela Merkel wants to impose her policies on others. This will lead to an explosion of the European Union.

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

I have respect for leaders who defend the interests of their countries. Angela Merkel policies are positive for Germany, but they are unfortunately harmful for all other countries.

When you take out a loan, what's your obligation other than paying it back? You have no other obligation.

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

Be in love with the moments of your life.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims.

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.

I can't blame Angela Merkel for saying she wants a strong euro.

I don't believe that Russia's a threat for Europe. I think that's a big scam.

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand

Life is a complexwith real and imaginary parts

A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.

You ever had a hickey? I want to give you a hickey.""Karl, we're not fourteen!""Don't bloody care. I was in love with you when I was fourteen -- your neck owes me a hickey."(Karl & Elena)

Your mind is a book

People come and go in this lifetime. Some merely pass us by. Some stay with us for a little while. Some leave as quickly as they come. However, when real friends come, they stay and never leave.

(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree

I choose to be a victor, and not a victim of change.

Change is uncomfortable and awkward at first. It has a ripping effect on those who refuse to go along with it. It is not fixed by crying, or worrying, or wallowing in self-pity and mental anguish.

Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.

It is said that ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’. I say, ‘Perfection lies in the heart of the receiver.

No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight

Even if all our senses fail to function − eyes turn blind and ears fail to listen − the heart will still listen, see and beat.

There is no bigger weapon than brain, yet the time is more powerful in the World.

Without a sense of humor, you don't have much sense at all.

Since we have to make choices in life, why not choose the good ones?

Let us keep on dreaming and instead of saying “I wish” and waiting for it to happen, have the courage to say “I will” and make it come true.

Dream, live it and make it happen! As impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude are what will keep us going.

Keep on dreaming. Keep on believing. It is free. And it is a choice.

As long as I dream, that is enough for me to keep moving forward.

Everyone can dream and as impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude is what will keep us going.

He pulled out a dagger from ... she wasn't sure where. Did he have that in his loin cloth? What else does he have in there? (Amy's thoughts, The Witching Pen)

Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.

I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself