Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

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• Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Friend

• We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Young

• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Clay
  • Surfaces

• There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Fall
  • Myself
  • Never

• It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Voice
  • Tough

• I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Football

• If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

  

  Kage Baker
  • High
  • Hope
  • Want

• Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Name
  • Old

• Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • You
  • Will

• You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Problem

• There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Nothing
  • Memory
  • Fleeting

• Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Stronger
  • Minimum Wage

• I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Wanted
  • Albums
  • Needed

• Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fool
  • Strange
  • Beast

• All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • May
  • Alone

• Anything that is not growing is dead.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Growing
  • Dead
  • Anything

• I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam—you’re a guru, ready for your groupies.

  

  Edward Vilga
  • Yoga
  • Learned
  • Guru

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest