Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

History is written by the winners.

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• You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

  

  Kate Millett
  • You
  • More
  • Housework

• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  

  Walter Smith
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Management

• No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • She
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Literature
  • Better

• There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Country
  • Political
  • Strong

• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Athlete

• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Magic
  • Must
  • Daylight

• I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Best

• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.

  

  Kat Graham
  • You
  • Try
  • Afraid

• I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Is

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Today
  • Legal

• For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Flowers

• And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Air
  • Inevitable
  • Leap

• I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Work
  • Team

• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Great
  • History

• I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Technology
  • Film

• Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Great
  • Money
  • History

• History is written by the winners.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Written
  • Winners