Charles Alexandre de Calonne quotes

Charles Alexandre de Calonne quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.”
-- Charles Alexandre de Calonne

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“You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,”

Source : "Who is Abdullah Ocalan?" by Beat Witschi, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2005.
“Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.”
“Our countrymen have all the folly of the ***** and all the passiveness of the sheep.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
“In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)”
“It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.”
“I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.”
“The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.411, Macmillan
“Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.”
“God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.”

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