I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or… — Anna Leonowens Copy Share Image
The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever." — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? E veryone I know goes away in the end You could have… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington,… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas. — Sydney Samuelson Copy Share Image
Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let… — John Milton Copy Share Image
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires… — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
