A Quote by Boris Yeltsin

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Boris Yeltsin

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Bayonets Build Difficult Sit Throne

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Boris Yeltsin
Russian - Statesman
February 1, 1931 - April 23, 2007

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Boris Yeltsin

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

William Inge

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

William Ralph Inge

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

Napoleon Bonaparte

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

Otto von Bismarck

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Thomas Hardy

Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.

Steve Farrar

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Mary Harris Jones

The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.

Larry Rosenberg

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

Cynthia Ozick

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

William Shakespeare

It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.