“Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
It is too late for me, son. The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But that one single soul was emperor of the universe, no less than each of us.” — Michael Frayn 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
When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with… — Origen Copy Share Image
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Obviously, what's happening in China right now is crucial, in the party congress, which as someone said has anointed a new emperor… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,'… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“patrolled by the Heavenly Guard whose main function was to tread heavily on the fingers of any inhabitants who felt they might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have, is to so live, and so improve himself in heart and brain, as… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“At the end of the vacation, I took a steamer alone from Wuhan back up through the Yangtze Gorges. The journey took… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“Purple emperor-watching with Matthew and Neil is not your average butterfly entertainment, ethereal and somewhat effete. Theirs is a raucous, adrenaline-fuelled spectator… — Isabella Tree 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