An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging. — Stanley Wolpert Copy Share Image
“As for me, life is just an endless experiment that must obey the rise and fall of time.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Kingdoms rise and fall but even through it all. He remains the one true God. — Mark Harris Copy Share Image
I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
“Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive And that’s what makes the calm sea alive” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries,… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“If history, as by most definitions, begins with writing, then the birth, rise and fall of ancient Mesopotamia occupies a full half… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
“He treats the person as if they were fully whole. We become what others expect us to be. Dad expected me to… — Nathan Foster Copy Share Image
The story of my life could be told in a series of waffle snapshots. I spent childhood weekends watching the lid of… — Chris Morocco Copy Share Image
“smeared with grime. His attention was on the rise and fall of the breakers and his uncovered hands were clasped tightly at… — Claudy Conn Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Percy and Books Percy does not like it when I read a book. He puts his face over the top of it,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The door was now ajar, the light of an unknown future shining through its crack. But it would take more strength than… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Someday they would rise and fall in the world the sermon presaged, where berry picking was a higher crime than bankruptcy. If… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people… — John A. Byrne Copy Share Image
“every experience will fill with immediacy. Because I love this, I am never bored. Beauty constantly wells up like the noise of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: --a day of dappled seaborne clouds. The phrase… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure whether he was a grad student, poet, actor, stripper, or brilliant combination of all those things. But the man… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“Trained hawks have a peculiar ability to conjure history because they are in a sense immortal. While individual hawks of different species… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Tides and the 2,000-Mile Man What causes the seas to rise and fall as if they were breathing two big breaths every… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“I began my mindfulness exercises and focused on how the water felt against my skin, how my toes felt as I raised… — John Marrs Copy Share Image
“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: —A day of dappled seaborne clouds. The phrase… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
