Top 1200 Napoleon Complex Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

I'm most concerned with committing to characters that contribute to more complex, modern and dynamic Asian-American representation on screen.

We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.

Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.

I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.

I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement in the '70s.

Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

Silverstone is challenging, but it has a good feel. It's one of the quickest tracks of the year, with legendary corners like the Magotts, Becketts, Chapel complex.

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.

Balancing the complex point of view in the edit room was mostly a matter of challenging ourselves to keep digging deeper.

Unlike government entities, the private sector has the technical knowhow and experience to build and operate complex communications systems.

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.

Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

The PC rebellion is about a reaction against the media academic complex, which tells us what to say - or else.

There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

The process of making a wedding cake is complex on its own, from designing, mis-en-place, baking, frosting, structuring, decorating, to delivering.

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think that I can beat the Democrat Media Complex by myself.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.

It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.

The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.

I'd say that I'm a really quite a joyful person in general, but I think the idea of joy can be extremely complex, and rich and varied.

When I was with the Doobies, the style of music was that we all went over the falls with chord progressions, trying to make things as complex and interconnected as possible.

Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.