Charles Degaulle Quotes

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"
In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he should ask DeGaulle about the Americans buried in France. Dean implied in his answer that that DeGaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Secretary of State Dean Rusk:
"Ask him about the cemeteries Dean!"
That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President DeGaulle.
So at end of the meeting Dean did ask DeGaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II.
DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up and left and never answered. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't ... out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended. ~ Oriana Fallaci

He looks like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath. ~ Winston S. Churchill

He'd write letters by the ream, if it was a capital offence! ~ Charles Dickens

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease. ~ Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Whatsa mattah allee time talkee talk bear business? Me no savvee bear business. You no like this Gloddam show, you go somewhere else. ~ Charles G. Finney

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~ Charles Kettering

Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly the tool of the thinking man. The right to suicide should be the same as the right to love. ~ Charles Bukowski

Try to think not; and 'twill seem better.' 'I've ~ Charles Dickens

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years. ~ Jeff Kinney

Sunday, the worst god-damned day of them all. ~ Charles Bukowski

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. ~ Charles Hermite

He may believe that he can skimp his intellectual labour without wearing his moral natuee thin or that he can break the laws of his moral nature without breaking his intellectual integrity. He may think that he can play fast and loose with his will without weakening his conscience or without impairing the truthfulness of his intellectual processes... For man is a unit. Weakness in one part becomes weakness in every part ~ Charles Franklin Thwing

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. ~ Charles Frazier

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have. ~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to ~ Charles Dickens

The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

School began in earnest next day. A profound impression was made upon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in the schoolroom suddenly becoming hushed as death when Mr. Creakle entered after breakfast, and stood in the doorway looking round upon us like a giant in a story-book surveying his captives. ~ Charles Dickens

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative. ~ Charles Bukowski

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Free lunches don't come cheap. ~ Charles Petzold

We umble ones have got eyes, mostly speaking - and we look out of 'em. ~ Charles Dickens

The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University. ~ Carl Honore

The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve. ~ Charles Dickens

I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner. ~ Charles Dickens

Oh yes, and compulsory ferret-legging down the pub on Tuesday evenings, for the tourist trade tha' knows." "Ferret-legging?" Rachel looked at him incredulously. "Yup. You tie your kilt up around your knees with duct tape - as you probably know, no Yorkshireman would be seen dead wearing anything under his sporran - and take a ferret by the scruff of his neck. A ferret, that's like, uh, a bit like a mink. Only less friendly. It's a young man's initiation rite; you stick the ferret where the sun doesn't shine and dance the furry dance to the tune of a balalaika. Last man standing and all that, kind of like the ancient Boer aardvark-kissing competition." Martin shuddered dramatically. "I hate ferrets. The bloody things bite like a cask-strength single malt without the nice after-effects. ~ Charles Stross

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor. ~ Charles Palliser

Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly. ~ Charles Dickens

In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now. ~ Raymond Charles Barker

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation. ~ Charles Eisenstein

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. ~ Charles Dickens

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind. ~ Charles Webster Hawthorne

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well. ~ Charles De Lint

If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore. ~ Charles Burnett

Miss Witherfield retired, deeply impressed with the magistrate's learning and research; Mr. Nupkins retired to lunch; Mr. Jinks retired within himself - that being the only retirement he had, except the sofa-bedstead in the small parlour which was occupied by his landlady's family in the daytime - and Mr. Grummer retired, to wipe out, by his mode of discharging his present commission, the insult which had been fastened upon himself, and the other representative of his Majesty - the beadle - in the course of the morning. ~ Charles Dickens

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ~ Charles Darwin

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. ~ Charles Lindbergh

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves. ~ Charles Darwin

We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience. ~ Charles Spurgeon

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing. ~ Charles De Lint

Your piety is worthless unless it leads you to wish that the same mercy which has been extended to you may bless the whole world. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love. ~ Charles Stanley

Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!"
"Maybe I could blame it on society! ~ Charles M. Schulz

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it. narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19 ~ Charles Yu

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients. ~ Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre