Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

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• Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Change
  • Christian
  • Angry

• I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Thought
  • Humor
  • Tough

• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Like
  • Pieces
  • Sell

• I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Think
  • Find

• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Light

• In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Independent
  • Environmental

• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Eyes
  • Government
  • Impossible

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

  

  Edith Head
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Different

• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Well
  • Sexuality

• At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.

  

  Iman
  • Day
  • End
  • Self-Esteem

• Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Religious
  • Need

• Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Health
  • Boundaries
  • Over

• I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Remember
  • War

• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Famous
  • More

• I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Music
  • Different
  • Fun

• We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Commitment

• The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Decision

• I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Night
  • Understand

• We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Europe
  • Loves
  • President Obama

• In the end, it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality to it.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Grief
  • Empires
  • Aristocratic

• Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Europe
  • Empires
  • Revolutions