Top 1200 Napoleon Complex Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.

The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it's not complex: it's an arrow straight to the heart.

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

You have to kind of lose yourself and not think about just how brave Mulan is. Yes, I am playing a hero, so we need to bring out that side, but I think every human being is complex, and complex is so beautiful. And that's where the energy of the character is.

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.

I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.

Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and complex systems do not respond to pressure in linear ways.

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon

In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon, 'but I propose and dispose too.' How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.

Relationships are very complex. It's very unusual to see something which is so 'complex portrayed on screen.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more complex characters in the longer form.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

The fact is I have an interpreter because he gives me the security that, when I have to answer complex questions, and with my complex answers, it's much better I have an interpreter to make sure nothing is misconstrued.

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as much as possible. I don't think the responsibility of the reporter or journalist is fundamentally different.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

It's baseball. You don't think a general manager can manage? Like it's impossible? The game is too complex? I've never bought into that, 'Baseball's just too complex.' Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

For the FBI and for the United States, the war on terrorism is a complex and perplexing issue. It is as complex and perplexing as any issue we have ever faced.