Bonnie Friedman
Quotes·Quotations by Bonnie Friedman
Attitudes
¶ An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman
Bonnie Friedman
Quotes·Quotations by Bonnie Friedman
Attitudes
¶ An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Sigmund Freud (German pronunciation: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏ̯t]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Quotes·Quotations by Sigmund Freud
Love
¶ Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire
Dance
@ I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. [Fred Astaire, Steps in Time (1959), p325.]
Dance
@ I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. [Fred Astaire, Steps in Time (1959), p325.]
Fred Savage (1976- )
Fred Savage (1976- )
Fredrick Aaron "Fred" Savage (born July 9, 1976)[1] is an American actor, director and producer of television and film.[2] He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years and as the grandson in The Princess Bride.
In recent years, he has directed and produced numerous episodes of television series, such as Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Hannah Montana, and Phil of the Future, as well as the primetime series Ugly Betty, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Modern Family, Happy Endings, 2 Broke Girls and Party Down.
Quotes·Quotations by Fred Savage
¶ You start out life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time where you look back over where you have been...and wonder who you really are. [Kevin, The Wonder Years; It's a Mad, Mad, Madeline World [4.5]]
References
[1]^ a b Fred Savage Biography (1976-)
[2]^ Lee, Felicia R. (2006-01-19). "A Sitcom 70's Child Grows Up to Be an Alter Ego". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Savage
Clary Fray (The Mortal Instruments)
Clary Fray from The Mortal Instruments
Clarissa "Clary" Adele Fray/Fairchild/Morgenstern is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Mortal Instruments series. Clary, while spending time at a New York City nightclub, the Pandemonium, is stunned to observe a group of teenagers with apparent supernatural abilities: Jace, Isabelle, and Alec. She sees them attack a demon who had gone into the club, but soon realizes that she is the only person able to see them.
Quotes·Quotations by Clary Fray
Lily Collins as Clary Fray from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
¶ Clary Fray: I didn't invite him into bed. We were just kissing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mortal_Instruments:_City_of_Bones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clary_Fray#Clary_Fray
Frank Quintero
Frank Quintero
Quotes·Quotations by Frank Quintero
Advice
¶ Do The Right Thing! [As Glendale mayor, To the Japanese Government (2013.04.14)]
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ roh-zə-vɛlt or /ˈroʊzəvəlt/ roh-zə-vəlt; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American president elected to more than two terms, he facilitated a durable coalition that realigned American politics for decades. With the bouncy popular song "Happy Days Are Here Again" as his campaign theme, FDR defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depth of the Great Depression. FDR's persistent optimism and activism contributed to a renewal of the national spirit, reflecting his victory over paralytic illness to become the longest serving president in U.S. history. He worked closely with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against Germany and Japan in World War II, but died just as victory was in sight.
In his first hundred days in office, which began March 4, 1933, Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal—a variety of programs designed to produce relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (economic growth), and reform (through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation). The economy improved rapidly from 1933 to 1937, but then relapsed into a deep recession. The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court or passing any considerable legislation; it abolished many of the relief programs when unemployment diminished during World War II. Most of the regulations on business were ended about 1975–85, except for the regulation of Wall Street by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which still exists. Along with several smaller programs, major surviving programs include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was created in 1933, and Social Security, which Congress passed in 1935.
As World War II loomed after 1938, with the Japanese invasion of China and the aggressions of Nazi Germany, FDR gave strong diplomatic and financial support to China and Britain, while remaining officially neutral. His goal was to make America the "Arsenal of Democracy" which would supply munitions to the Allies. In March 1941, Roosevelt, with Congressional approval, provided Lend-Lease aid to the countries fighting against Nazi Germany with Britain. With very strong national support he made war on Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, calling it a "date which will live in infamy". He supervised the mobilization of the U.S. economy to support the Allied war effort. As an active military leader, Roosevelt implemented an overall war strategy on two fronts that ended in the defeat of the Axis Powers and the development of the world's first atom bomb. In 1942 Roosevelt ordered the Army to inter 100,000 Japanese American civilians in camps in the inland West, away from the Pacific coast. Unemployment dropped to 2%, relief programs largely ended, and the industrial economy grew rapidly to new heights as millions of people moved to new jobs in war centers, and 16 million men and 300,000 women were drafted or volunteered for military service.
Roosevelt dominated the American political scene, not only during the twelve years of his presidency, but for decades afterward. He orchestrated the realignment of voters that created the Fifth Party System. FDR's New Deal Coalition united labor unions, big city machines, white ethnics, African Americans and rural white Southerners. Roosevelt's diplomatic impact also resonated on the world stage long after his death, with the United Nations and Bretton Woods as examples of his administration's wide-ranging impact. Roosevelt is consistently rated by scholars as one of the top three U.S. Presidents.
A liberal Democrat, Roosevelt defined his ideological position as "a little left of center" and also called his cabinet "slightly to the left of center".
Quotes·Quotation by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Advice
¶ When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Politics·Government
¶ There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
¶ The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt
Frank Rizzo (1920-1991)
Frank Rizzo (1920-1991)
Francis Lazarro "Frank" Rizzo, Sr. (October 23, 1920 – July 16, 1991) was an American police officer and politician. He served two terms as mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from January 1972 to January 1980; he was Police Commissioner for four years prior to that.
Quotes·Quotation
Duh...
¶ The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rizzo
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.
His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright authored 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time."
Quotes·Quotation
Entertainment·Television
¶ Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
France and French people
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France and French people
France
France (English i/ˈfræns/ franss or /ˈfrɑːns/ frahnss; French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française French pronunciation: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic located mostly in Western Europe,[note 12] with several overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. From its shape, it is often referred to in French as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon").
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France is a developed country,[7] possessing the world's fifth-largest and Europe's second-largest economy by nominal GDP. It is also the world's ninth-largest by GDP at purchasing power parity.[8] France is the wealthiest nation in Europe – and the fourth-wealthiest in the world – in aggregate household wealth.[9] French citizens enjoy a high standard of living, high public education level, and one of the world's longest life expectancies.[10] France has been listed as the world's "best overall health care" provider by the World Health Organization.[11] It is the most-visited country in the world, receiving 79.5 million foreign tourists annually.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
The French (French: Français) are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups. Within France, the French are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence.[27]
However, the word can also refer to people of French descent who are found in other countries, with significant French-speaking population groups or not, such as Canada (French Canadians), United States (French Americans), Argentina (French Argentines), United Kingdom (French British), Brazil (French Brazilians) and French West Indies (French Caribbean), and some of them have a French cultural identity.[28][29]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_people
French language
French (le français [lə fʁɑ̃sɛ] ( listen) or la langue française [la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]) is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick (Acadia region) in Canada, the U.S. state of Maine, the Acadiana region of the U.S. state of Louisiana, and by various communities elsewhere. Other speakers of French, who often speak it as a second language,[3] are distributed throughout many parts of the world, the largest numbers of whom reside in Francophone Africa.[4] In Africa, French is most commonly spoken in Gabon (where 80% report fluency),[4] Mauritius (78%), Algeria (75%), Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire (70%). French is estimated as having 110 million[3] native speakers and 190 million more second language speakers.[5]
French is a descendant of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, as are languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Lombard, Catalan, Sicilian and Sardinian. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in Belgium, which French has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Roman Gaul and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian.
French is an official language in 29 countries, most of which form la francophonie (in French), the community of French-speaking countries. It is an official language of all United Nations agencies and a large number of international organizations. According to France's Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, 77 million in Europe speak French natively. Outside of France, the highest numbers of French speakers are found in Belgium (45% of the population), Switzerland (20% of the population) and Luxembourg. In 2013, the Ministry identified French as the second most spoken language in Europe, after German and before English.[6] Twenty percent of non-Francophone Europeans know how to speak French,[clarification needed] totaling roughly 145.6 million people in Europe alone.[7] As a result of extensive colonial ambitions of France and Belgium (at that time governed by a French-speaking elite), between the 17th and 20th centuries, French was introduced to colonies in the Americas, Africa, Polynesia, the Levant, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.
According to a demographic projection led by the Université Laval and the Réseau Démographie de l'Agence universitaire de la francophonie, French speakers will number approximately 500 million people in 2025 and 650 million people, or approximately 7% of the world's population by 2050.[8][9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language
French Proverbs
Advice
¶ Rome was not built in a day.
Fire
¶ Fire is put out by fire.
Hero
¶ No man is a hero to his valet.
Knowledge
¶ Knowledge finds its price.
Life
¶ Man proposes and God disposes.
¶ He has a very hard heart that does not love in May.
¶ Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.
¶ To love is to choose.
Self-discipline
¶ He who can lick can bite.
References
France
[6]^ "Great Powers – Encarta. MSN. 2008". Webcitation.org. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
[7]^ Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development. Human Development Report 2009. the United Nations Development Programme. New York. ISBN 978-0-230-23904-3
[8]^ Field listing – GDP (official exchange rate), CIA World Factbook
[9]^ Credit Suisse 2010's Global Wealth Report "In euro and USD terms, the total wealth of French households is very sizeable. Although it has just 1.1% of the world's adults, France ranks fourth among nations in aggregate household wealth – behind China and just ahead of Germany. Europe as a whole accounts for 35% of the individuals in the global top 1%, but France itself contributes a quarter of the European contingent."
[10]^ "World Population Prospects – The 2006 Revision" (PDF). UN. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
[11]^ "World Health Organization Assesses the World's Health Systems". Who.int. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
[12]^ a b "UNWTO Highlights" (PDF). United Nations World Tourism Organization. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
[13]^ a b "SIPRI Yearbook 2012 - 15 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2011". Sipri.org. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
[14]^ "Federation of American Scientists : Status of World Nuclear Forces". Fas.org. 26 May 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
[15]^ "France-Diplomatie". Diplomatie.gouv.fr. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
[16]^ a b France on Europa Official Site
French people
[27]^ a b c "France shall be an indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic. It shall ensure the equality of all citizens before the law, without distinction of origin, race or religion", Constitution of 4 October 1958
[28]^ Alexandra Hughes, Alex Hughes, Keith A Reader, Keith Reader -Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture - p 232. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
[29]^ Countries and Their Cultures French Canadians - everyculture.com Retrieved 12 April 2013.
French language
[3]^ a b c d "L’aménagement linguistique dans le monde". CEFAN (Chaire pour le développement de la recherché sur la culture d’expression française en Amérique du Nord, Université Laval (in French). Jacques Leclerc. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
[4]^ a b c d (French) La Francophonie dans le monde 2006–2007 published by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Nathan, Paris, 2007.
[5]^ a b The World's 10 Most Influential Languages Top Languages. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
[6]^ "The status of French in the world". France Diplomatie. Ministère des Affaires étrangères. 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
[7]^ "Why learn French". Canadian Parents For French (Ontario). Retrieved 21 April 2010.
[8]^ "Agora: La francophonie de demain". Retrieved 13 June 2011.
[9]^ "Bulletin de liaison du réseau démographie". Retrieved 14 June 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language
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