Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.Napoleon Bonaparte
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
Rafael Moneo -
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch -
Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
Garret Dillahunt -
Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban -
I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
Laura Linney
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
Gareth Gates -
Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley -
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
The less I talk about being black, the better.
Idris Elba
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Edna Ferber -
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina -
The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
Tammy Duckworth -
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
Dane Cook -
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
Zac Goldsmith -
In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
E. O. Wilson -
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
Vanilla Ice -
You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
Caitriona Balfe -
It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story 'The Great Orley Farm Case.' But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, - Orley Farm.
Anthony Trollope -
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte