Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • City
  • Architecture

• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Friend
  • Trust
  • Dark

• This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101' or the 'Art of the Deal' or, really, back to 'Art of the Deal'. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Art
  • Help
  • Know

• I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Architecture

• I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

  

  Dan Gable
  • College
  • Danger
  • Wrestling

• I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Against

• It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

  

  Bernard Beckett

• I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

  

  Jim Lynch
  • People

• I used to be insecure about my butt, but I no longer think of clothes as something to make me look skinnier.

  

  Barbie Ferreira

• The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Trying
  • Mean

• Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Literature
  • Dog

• Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • God
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Needs
  • Constant
  • Common Sense

• Don’t sit around and wait for all the great things in your life. Little things mean a lot.

  

  Boyz II Men
  • Life
  • Wait
  • Great Things

• I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Passion
  • Suffering
  • Lesson

• It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Crazy
  • Artist
  • Successful

• For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Dream

• High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Common Sense
  • Great Things
  • Politic