Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821

Topics

InevitableBuildHandMoreFollow

We all are so serious when we are younger.

Joe Penny

SeriousYounger

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

Joe Biden

WorkGoodVisionPeaceFreeMore

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

John C. Calhoun

PowerGovernmentForgetResponsible

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

TiredPeopleNothingWayCompany

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

Matthew Desmond

PoorHousingRealizationRoleHow

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

Matthew Pearl

LifeFamilyChildrenFriendsYour

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

Jeff Bridges

ThinkFeelYouKnowWantMy Own

Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.

Stephen Graham Jones

TimePeopleWritingBloodLandUp

Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

Robert Dallek

WarEngineeringToo MuchComfortable

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

Roger Daltrey

LifeRestThoughtMy LifeLostDead

Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices.

Louis Theroux

PeopleNameAnimalsHuntingKeep

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.

Diane Kruger

EyesGraceThinkingYouLovingMean

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