But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“It has toppled empires and caused destruction. It is responsible for the worst tragedies and numerous maladies. Yet it is longed for,… — A.M. Sohma Copy Share Image
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire. — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If you're the King of Jordan, if you're a part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia and he's made this deal… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire… — Boris Brasol Copy Share Image
If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers,… — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon,… — Peter Kuznick Copy Share Image
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job,… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no… — John Newton Copy Share Image
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how… — Michel de Montaigne 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
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone.… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour. — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
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