In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm 33 and in my "Jesus year," and I want it all right now. I want a perfect body. I want to… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a… — Conrad Veidt 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
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an… — Howard Zinn 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
The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle,… — William Blum Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with… — James Dean Bradfield 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
... 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
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“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/i/3e5/john-lennon-322_believe_we-thought-being-offered-the-m-b-e-membe_1845239.jpg)
![“[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/i/564/edward-snowden-555_amendments_i-watch-all-that-stuff-game-of-thrones-a_2916560.jpg)
