Bonapartist Faction Quotes & Sayings

Tatemae is a charming attitude when it means that everyone should look at the other way at a guest's faux pas in the tearoom; it has dangerous and unpredictable results when applied to corporate balance sheets, drug testing, and nuclear-power safety reports. — Alex Kerr

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. — Wislawa Szymborska

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world. — Stephen King

When that little clock on my wall says "Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It's half past time to write", I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

We all like to prove people wrong who say we're no good. — Steve Spurrier

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system. — Jeremy Corbyn

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks. — Dolly Parton

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood. — Charles Dickens

To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. — Paulo Coelho

Every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, — George R R Martin

I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics. — Barack Obama

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs. — Ron Livingston

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying. — Robert Boyle

And you can tell that Britney Spears is struggling with who she is. I think she has a team of agents and managers who are saying, yes, push the envelope, kiss Madonna, take off all your clothes. And she's doing that because she doesn't want to sacrifice this enormous platform that she's built. But at the same time, she is sacrificing herself and you can see that in her eyes when she talks. — Christine O'Donnell

I will live to the level of my own expectations, not others — Sara Wales