Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

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• It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Different
  • Character
  • Game

• First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • God
  • Think
  • Name

• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Greeks
  • Surviving

• People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • Politics

• We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Done
  • Technology

• I don't know how many girls have felt support through my persona. I'm a girl power. So many girls tell me I'm a girl power, and yes, I am.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Power
  • Girl
  • Support

• New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Good
  • Long
  • City

• Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Model

• Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

  

  Idries Shah
  • Important
  • Words
  • Attention

• Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

  

  G. D. H. Cole
  • Freedom
  • Personality

• I had a hard time at school because I worked, so I was quite often out of school, which meant that I didn't make many friends. It can happen to child actors, because you're not in the school environment. And I did miss that school environment and being around people.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Long
  • Death
  • Fear

• I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • True
  • Hope
  • Desire

• we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

  

  Billy Joel
  • True
  • Dream
  • Vienna

• On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

  

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Weeping

• To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • Fire
  • Survival

• We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Age
  • Couple
  • Fire

• The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

  

  William John Wills
  • Danger
  • Advantage

• We can make a practice of letting go of unnecessary negative thoughts and feelings (our prayer word– a quick flight to the center, while the thought is allowed to float away– can be used to advantage in this) and cultivating joyful, positive ones.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Practice
  • Feelings
  • Advantage

• Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Advantage
  • Soldiers
  • Treasures