Quotes of: Napoleon Keyword

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

Don’t get me wrong. I like dogs. I love them, in fact. It’s their human counterparts I could sometimes do without.

Murder Strikes a Pose

Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?

Mike and Psmith

I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?

Moranthology

We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.

A Novel Bookstore

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

Necropolis: London and its Dead

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Liberalism and Its Critics

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

Let's Get Lost

I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

The Law of Moses

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Sebagai republik yang merdeka, Indonesia berusia lima puluh tahun, tetapi kedengaran lebih mirip sebuah kekaisaran tak terkendali daripada sebuah negara bangsa modern.

In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos. (h.5)

Pagi dan Hal-Hal yang Dipungut Kembali

What is grace? I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room, it opened and felt like an umbrella.

A profile of Mr Rogers

Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.

Theories of International Politics and Zombies