Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Strong Quotes, Events Quotes

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

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All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

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