Borodino Quotes & Sayings

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted. — Agatha Christie

Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around. — Seth Godin

On September 9, the day after Prevost's armistice ends, Napoleon launches and, at great cost, wins the Battle of Borodino, thus opening the way to Moscow. The casualties on that day exceed eighty thousand - a figure greater than the entire population, of Upper Canada. — Pierre Berton

For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life. — Barry Commoner

Paint what you see and look with your own eyes. — Gilbert Stuart

My hands are still bleeding, too bloody. Every stain once gone has returned, like a permanent mark of the sins I've committed. — Christine Fonseca

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder. — Kate Winslet

If it had depended on Napoleon's will to fight or not to fight the battle of Borodino, and if this or that other arrangement depended on his will, then evidently a cold affecting the manifestation of his will might have saved Russia, and consequently the valet who omitted to bring Napoleon his waterproof-boots on the 24th would have been the saviour of Russia. Along — Leo Tolstoy

You are asking me: "Why am I scared to accept myself the way I am?" Because you have not been accepted by anyone the way you are. They have created the fear and the apprehension that if you accept yourself you will be rejected by everybody. This — Osho

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I know you can't wash in the same river even once
I know the river will bring new lights that you will not see
I know we live slightly longer than a horse and not nearly as long as a crow
I know this has troubled people before and will trouble those after me
I know all this has been said a thousand times before and will be said after me
I didn't know I like the sky
cloudy or clear
the blue vault that Andrei watched on his back on the battlefield at Borodino
... — Nazim Hikmet