Quotes About 1769

#1. The transit of Venus of 1769 finally allowed us to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun: 149.59 million kilometres. A

Bill Bryson

#2. Napoleone di Buonaparte, as he signed himself until manhood, was born in Ajaccio, one of the larger towns on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, just before noon on Tuesday, August 15, 1769.

Andrew Roberts

#3. Space we can recover, time never. Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821

Robert Greene

#4. There are anthropogenic state risks at the existential level as well: the longer we live in an internationally anarchic system, the greater the cumulative chance of a thermonuclear Armageddon or of a great war fought with other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, laying waste to civilization.

Nick Bostrom

#5. I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

Saoirse Ronan

#6. Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects ...

Samuel Adams

#7. Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant.

Steven Erikson

#8. Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.

David Suzuki

#9. There can't be any world without Samuel. How could we think about anything without knowing what he thought about it? What would the spring be like, or Christmas, or rain? There couldn't be a Christmas.

John Steinbeck

#10. Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights.

Deborah Day

#11. Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending your Son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen.

Jan Karon

#12. You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

Richard Dawkins

#13. It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Gavin Rossdale

#14. Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story.

Federico Fellini

#15. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. An idiotic vitch like you
Must rrroast upon the barbecue!

Roald Dahl