Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everybody
  • Campaign
  • Must

• I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Me

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Success
  • Victory
  • Obstacles

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Change

• I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • May

• I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Want
  • Film
  • Albums

• Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.""I'm not dissing you," Claire sighed. "I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Important
  • Difference
  • Danvers

• You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Food
  • Winter

• In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Room

• Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Rock
  • Cold
  • Punk

• Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Way
  • Feelings
  • Hands

• The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • People
  • Good
  • Comics

• As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Pop
  • Underground

• I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Want
  • Me
  • Angry

• Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Attention
  • Force
  • Notice

• Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Force
  • Organize
  • Impotence