What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight? — John L. Balderston Copy Share Image
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Conquest is shown to be an arbitrary act devoid of distinction and significance.” — Andrew Hadfield Copy Share Image
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
If you create and market a product or service through a business that is in alignment with your personality, capitalizes on your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs;… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from… — Karen White Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me.” — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
“ingenuity is the ultimate gift of humankind. And conquest is the ultimate curse. ” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image