we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the… — Rudrangshu Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. — Kublai Khan Copy Share Image
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas. — Sydney Samuelson Copy Share Image
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or… — Anna Leonowens Copy Share Image
I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? E veryone I know goes away in the end You could have… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever." — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
