Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!. — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.' — Dick Strawbridge Copy Share Image
Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America. — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the… — Thomas Hutchinson Copy Share Image
When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that… — Mae Jemison 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
In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a… — Nicholson Baker 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
I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected… — James Madison Copy Share Image
How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand,… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Utterly absorbing… If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement… Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your… — Linda Goodman Copy Share Image
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be… — Wellington Webb Copy Share Image