My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling 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
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“The history of Europe before the Conquest is sufficient proof that the Europeans did not have to cross the oceans to find… — Silvia Federici Copy Share Image
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
“Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
“ingenuity is the ultimate gift of humankind. And conquest is the ultimate curse. ” — Anonymous 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
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