One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches. I blot out cemetaries.… — Harry Crosby Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. .… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get… — Fergie Copy Share Image
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
Travelling the railways of Europe with a century-old guidebook can be disconcerting: fares, food, and drink seem shockingly expensive compared with what… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
![“[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/564/edward-snowden-555_amendments_i-watch-all-that-stuff-game-of-thrones-a_2916560.jpg)
![“We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.” quote by John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e5/john-lennon-322_believe_we-thought-being-offered-the-m-b-e-membe_1845239.jpg)