Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

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• My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Me
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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Model

• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Character
  • Hair
  • Warrior

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Successful

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Moments
  • Made
  • Quiet

• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Doing

• When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.

  

  Valerie June
  • First
  • New
  • New York

• How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • You
  • Band
  • Better

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Acting

• If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?

  

  Lemuel K. Washburn
  • God

• We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • War
  • Community

• Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Time
  • War
  • Death

• A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Nothing

• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  

  John Wooden
  • God
  • Humble
  • Be Careful

• In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Relative
  • Moral Factors