“Alexander did not name an heir to his empire. When asked on his deathbed, he cryptically replied, “To the strongest.” — Kris Waldherr Copy Share Image
“Alexander raised his shaking right hand to his temple, to his lips, to his heart.” — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
“He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]” — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“So this kid is what? A predestined Alexander? A Caesar? A Genghis? A Wiggin?” I ask. “This is slagging nonsense.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“I didn't change Reid Alexander. I just helped him uncover who he always was, at his core.” — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“I perceive your lovers purely as the successors of Alexander the Great, incompetent joint rulers of an empire where I once ruled… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to concquer. Benefits of a classical… — Hans Gruber Copy Share Image
It's good to see Graham Alexander back in the game. He was such a tremendous professional as a player so I know… — Neil Warnock Copy Share Image
“Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA So do all… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
“Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Alexander emerges as an almost Hamlet-like figure, more sinned against than sinning. In a sense Alexander, too, was haunted and motivated by… — Andrew Chugg Copy Share Image
I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire… — Kurt Schrader Copy Share Image
“The Field of Mars, June, death, life, white nights, Dasha, Dimitri, the all came… And went. But there Alexander still was, standing… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Now King Alexander is driving down the familiar streets, curiously unguarded, in a curiously antique car. It can be seen from his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I am acting, then," continued Alexander, "only on the defensive. The gods, who always favor the right, have given me the victory.… — Jacob Abbott Copy Share Image
“Alexander. Here he is, before he was Tatiana’s, at the age of twenty, getting his medal of valor for bringing back Yuri… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“you know that, don't you? Alexander whispers. I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. I'm sick with you. I… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“It was a wise policy in that false prophet, Alexander, who though now forgotten, was once so famous, to lay the first… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Tania, I was spellbound by you from the first moment I saw you. There I was, living my dissolute life, and war… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“ The Life of Samuel Alexander, His Strange Surprizing Adventures , starts out like a song.” — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs? — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“As Alexander would confess years later, sex and sleep more than anything else reminded him that he was mortal. One” — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.” — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image