Napoleon 1995 Quotes & Sayings

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence. — Neville Cardus

A rightly oriented Christianity causes us to care not only about ourselves and our families but also about our communities, cities, and society generally. — Matt Perman

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks — Alfred The Great

Man ... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has ... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love ... — Lionel Trilling

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into? — Abraham Lincoln

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown. — Jack Kemp

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth. — Ashleigh Brilliant

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror. — Peter Hoeg

Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a works that was anything but. Once you realize this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away. — Sarah Dessen

I'm back at Lafayette Park after a trip to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, not to look at the books but to rub up against the female bookworms and to catch a buzz on the free herbal tea. — Donald O'Donovan

It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail. — Ervin Seale

I have an appetite to always learn. — Wayne Rogers