Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• We must strive to become good ancestors.

  

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• To be is to do.

  

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• I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
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• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
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• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
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• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

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• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Democracy
  • Enthusiasm

• When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Lost
  • Moments
  • Risk

• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Movie
  • Commitment
  • Reflection

• If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Money
  • Want
  • Company

• I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Young
  • Very
  • Gravity

• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Play
  • Like
  • Going

• Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • May
  • Space

• I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Friends
  • Lunch

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Growth

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• If you have total government it makes little difference whether you call it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism. It's all pretty much the same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• About the government, I think it is for the people - and, of course, journalists, commentators and intellectuals - to comment, which they have done copiously. All I would say is, I am grateful.

  

  P. V. Narasimha Rao
  • People
  • Government
  • Comment

• The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Hurt

• A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Shine
  • Astonish