Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Equality
  • Nobody
  • Anyway

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Greatest

• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Know
  • Promise

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Light

• As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Long
  • Training
  • Army

• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Help
  • Technique
  • Physical

• Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Market
  • Other

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Never
  • Research

• I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Life
  • Different
  • Home

• And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Earth
  • City
  • Easy

• I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.

  

  Billie Whitelaw
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Style
  • Same

• Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• When I had my cancer, the chemotherapy took my hair away. So then I decided I would just keep it short, and this is my signature now. The great thing about it is that I am a bit of a chameleon, so you can put a wig on me and I look totally different.

  

  Anthony Warlow
  • Great
  • Different
  • Hair

• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Influence
  • Welcome