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No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules. — Jacques Chirac

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. — Jacques Maritain

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster. — Jacques Audiard

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth. — James Cameron

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jacques wants a pancake shaped like Mozart's Symphony No. 40! In G minor! — Michelle Cuevas

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too. — Walter Kirn

Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it. — Brian Jacques

My love for you isn't just my affair, it's yours too. My love says something about you that maybe you yourself don't know. — Jacques-Alain Miller

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author? — Brian Jacques

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere. — Jacques Ellul

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney. — Jacques Verges

Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself. — Jacques Derrida

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. — Jacques Chirac

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people. — Jeph Jacques

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. — Jacques Monod

Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Poetic Verse by — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane. — Jacques Audiard

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure. — Jacques Chirac

It wasn't easy, I told you I ran around in circles for hours screaming my head off, but hey, why live in denial? It's more fun to embrace the crazy. — Kristin Jacques

It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can. - Boldred — Brian Jacques

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Friend is a very small word,
A little sound we make,
For one who is true, one who will do,
Great deeds for friendship's sake. — Brian Jacques

If you teach success, you will taste success! — Jacques Van Der Merwe

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace! — Brian Jacques

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats. — Jacques Barzun

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter. — Jacques Pepin

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films. — Jacques Rivette

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it — Jacques Attali

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. — Jacques-Louis David

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. — Jacques Delors

Water - the ocean - is our most natural environment.
We are born naked from the miniature ocean of the mother's womb. — Jacques Mayol

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see. — Jeph Jacques

The world is woman's book. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for. — Jacques Barzun

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated. — Jeph Jacques

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking. — Anthony Bourdain

I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it. — Rick Perlstein

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001. — Jacques Rivette

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director. — Jacques Rivette

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax. — Jacques Pepin

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love. — Jacques Maritain

The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied. — Martin Jacques

It's a jolly little junior vermin! — Brian Jacques

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work. — Jacques Rogge

Finance is a slave's word. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful!
- Gerul — Brian Jacques

The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage. — Jeph Jacques

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? — Jacques Lacan

Experience is the cane of the blind. — Jacques Roumain

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freediving is about silence ... the silence that comes from within.. — Jacques Mayol

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. — Jacques Ellul

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat. — Ian Botham

Was it magic? Of course it was. — Brian Jacques

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ? — Jacques Hadamard

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it. — Jacques Pierre Brissot

In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. — Jacques Barzun

Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Just those of us with sisters-in-laws who bounce off walls. I feel like I am watching a Ping-Pong ball. Settle down. — Christine Feehan

The Golden Age of Secularism has passed. — Jacques Berlinerblau

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family. — Martin Jacques

If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again. — Jacques Plante

To live is not breathing it is action. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fate operates when people give up — Jacques Ellul

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire. — Jacques Lacan

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor. — Jacques Ellul

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence. — Jacques Audiard

Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge. — Jacques Ellul

From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319) — Jacques Lacan

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge. — Jacques Maritain

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc ... to find success writing children's novels. — Brian Jacques

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job. — Jacques Delors

He's not lying. I can assure you, he's part fish. Jacques Cousteau has nothing on him. Aquaman, either. (Solin) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary. — Jacques Audiard

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe? — Brian Jacques

And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes. — Jacques Derrida

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people. — Jacques Villeneuve

Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about. — Jacques Derrida

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. — Jacques Barzun

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman. — Jacques Attali