In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; Past the… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes.… — Michael A. Stackpole Copy Share Image
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty. To make everything better.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day… — Josephine de Beauharnais Copy Share Image
Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not… — Seishiro Itagaki Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will… — Calvin Ayre Copy Share Image
In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image