The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career. — E-40 Copy Share Image
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our… — David Korten Copy Share Image
I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use. — Qin Shi Huang Copy Share Image
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
