Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

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• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Positive

• I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Editing

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Laugh

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Home
  • Morning
  • Style

• It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Life
  • Tragedy
  • Thankful

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Family
  • American
  • Society

• The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Real
  • Just
  • Go

• I like to stay home with my family.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Like

• They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great
  • Country

• For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.

  

  Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Shame
  • Injury
  • Proficient

• I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric. The rhetoric has been outrageous: The finger-pointing, the tone, the angst, and the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters - really, then, some people react to things like that; people get angry as well, and you fuel the fires.

  

  Chris Collins
  • People
  • Hope
  • Trump

• All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.

  Mark Spitz

• People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Golf
  • Course

• My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Star
  • Grasp
  • Slipping