“Dominance is not a state of being, but a continuous act of narrative architecture.” — Kangoma Kindembo Copy Share Image
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent. — James Warburg Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I say I'm weak, God insists that I'm stronger and through Him, I've conquered and will continue to conquer. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I used to play Another One Bites The Dust after every conquest. But I'm old now so I'm changing it to Another… — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints."… — Angela Knight Copy Share Image
The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world… — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs;… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm ready for all forms of dialogue about the film The Conquest. There will be a lot of political talk, but I… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight? — John L. Balderston Copy Share Image
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. — Walter Martin Copy Share Image