Segolene Royal famous quotes

I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left.
-- Segolene Royal

#School #Numbers #Environmental

People better get used to the idea that I exist.
-- Segolene Royal

#Ideas #People #Used

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.
-- Segolene Royal

#Thinking #Iraq #World

I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.
-- Segolene Royal

#Europe #Want #Social

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.
-- Segolene Royal

#Mother #Children #Four

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.
-- Segolene Royal

#Want #Spirit #Vengeance

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.
-- Segolene Royal

#Years #Today #Violence

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?