Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
-
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
-
Whenever an angel says 'Be not afraid!' you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
-
Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
-
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not.
-
The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
-
There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?
-
I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."
-
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
-
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
-
God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
-
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
-
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
-
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.
-
When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!
-
I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
-
It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
-
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.
-
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.
-
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
