Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

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• There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• Bill Murray is such a tremendous talent, but the world wasn't ready for 'Razor's Edge,' for something that thoughtful and with that much depth at that time in his career.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Time
  • World
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• You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

  

  James Cameron
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• I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini

• What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

  

  Chuck Tanner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Remember

• New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

  

  Mary C. Jones
  • Improvement

• It's tough to win major championships. So many things and emotions go through your mind.

  

  Jason Day
  • Mind

• America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

  

  Bill Plympton
  • America

• Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Water

• In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

  

  Amanda Schull
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dance

• The lower the cost of the film, the more you can experiment.

  

  Anurag Kashyap

• To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Brain
  • Relax

• Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Forever
  • Anxiety
  • Mercy

• The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Religion
  • Changed
  • Responsible

• No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Matter

• I prefer being totally sober myself.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Sober

• Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

  

  William Hague
  • Yorkshireman

• When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • World
  • Writing
  • Change

• I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Way
  • Like
  • Sports

• For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

  

  Plato
  • Ideas
  • Cause
  • Misanthropists

• Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Man
  • Ambition
  • Accuse

• Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Human Species
  • Perverse
  • Misanthropists