Quotes About Barras

#1. Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character.

J. Christopher Herold

#2. What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#4. Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

Janette Rallison

#5. Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables;

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We'd link to the other side; we'd present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds.

Marc Morano

#7. Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! Don't wait for another year older for you to learn something new. JUST DO IT. (You listen to Nike!)

Diana Rose Morcilla

#8. An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

Tim Cahill

#9. Expect me to continue what I've been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Kevin Hart

#10. We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

Mark Zuckerberg

#11. The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

Hillel The Elder

#12. I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

Gregory Benford

#13. Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

N. Scott Momaday

#14. I try to only worry about things I have control over.

Steve Nash

#15. Leadership, he was discovering, had its ups and downs - kind of like the bowsprit on a swelling sea.

Michael Robert Evans

#16. I can only be nice to one Person, today's not your day tomorrow doesn't look good either

Quinn Loftis

#17. I truly believe a woman's weight is a political issue, and if one young woman out there can see me and not feel crummy about herself, that's a good thing.

Janeane Garofalo