Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

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• I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

  

  Iman
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Progress

• First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Beginning

• The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • America

• What I will say - one thing that is attractive about getting a real film made within the studio system is that studio systems, with their marketing and distribution, have real power.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Real
  • Power
  • Marketing

• Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

  

  Bernard Werber
  • Live
  • Together
  • Society

• I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Failure

• I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • People
  • Believe
  • Career

• Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Great
  • Long
  • Trying

• The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Day
  • Measured
  • Diameter

• I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

  

  George Clooney
  • Made
  • Humility
  • Worst

• Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Believe
  • Truths
  • Religions

• Impossible is nothing.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Nothing
  • Impossible

• Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

  

  Euripides
  • Experience
  • Mortality

• Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Servant

• You always have to speak good about the projects you do and you have to see the beauty in them. Sometimes you see them and you're happy with things, or maybe the process was nice and you enjoyed it, and you were happy with that. But when everything gathers - you liked the scripts from the very beginning, the directors, your friends - but then you see the result and you like it - it's beautiful.

  

  Miguel Angel Silvestre
  • Sometimes
  • Process
  • Projects

• Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Bodies
  • Feed
  • Vile

• I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Faith

• Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Bodies
  • Jealousies
  • Coteries