The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking…

— Queen Victoria

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

— Empedocles

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

— William Wordsworth

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon

[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be…

— Elie Wiesel

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in…

— Wilhelm II

The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would…

— Ron Paul

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

— Richard Cobden

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

— William Safire

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire…

— Paul von Hindenburg

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from…

— Steven Spielberg