I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place” — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. — John Foxe Copy Share Image
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in… — Colm Keaveney Copy Share Image
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his… — Isaac Newton 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
“You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire." "And you are addressing a free woman of the… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor… — Christopher Marlowe 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
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We are the Sublime Radiance, the Star of India, and the Sun of Glory," said the emperor, who knew a thing or… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
