Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Exercise
  • New
  • Insecurity

• All artists are equal when they are themselves.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Artists
  • Equal
  • Themselves

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Productive

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Water
  • Pride

• This is where dreams-dreams, do you understand-come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Real

• The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Up
  • Discipline

• One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Thinking

• Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • School
  • Clever

• I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • Live
  • Job
  • English

• Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

  

  Michael Sweet Boston
  • Poor
  • Particular
  • Printing

• The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Victory
  • Consolidation
  • Concordat

• But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Victory
  • Gods
  • Fault

• The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Victory
  • Danger
  • Occurs