Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

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• But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Want
  • Band

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Start
  • Books
  • Really

• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

  

  Young Thug
  • Friends
  • Care
  • Enough

• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Birds

• The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Now

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Goal

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Time
  • Risk
  • Failure

• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Teacher

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• I've worked very hard for everything I have and nothing has come easy.

  

  LeAnn Rimes

• I have loved music since I was a baby and had the chance to begin early. At 14 I had my first band, a quartet, and then many others until I was 19 playing Beatles, Rolling Stones, Mamas & The Papas, Crosby, Stills... today we'd call them "cover bands

  

  Fabio Frizzi
  • Music
  • Today
  • Band

• Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Future

• Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

  

  Euripides
  • Children
  • Trouble
  • Spring

• The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Life
  • Claim
  • Predestined