“Even if I could be Queen to the Emperor and have all the power and riches in the world, I’d rather be… — The Letters of Abelard and Heloise Copy Share Image
Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“- what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him?” — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country. — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether Jeff Bezos is the greatest thing in the world coming along or if he may be the emperor… — Julian Robertson Copy Share Image
When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“only two people known by name were also called “Son of God.” One was the Roman emperor—starting with Octavian, or Caesar Augustus—and… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help)… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
That's all you get," said Alpharius, and split him in half. Alpharius sheathed his gladius, and dragged the sabre out of his… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with… — Origen Copy Share Image
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and… — Edward Grey Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives,… — Joshua A. Norton Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always,… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission. — Kingoro Hashimoto Copy Share Image
If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or… — William Adams Copy Share Image
While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds.… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image