Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic… — Newt Gingrich 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
Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence! — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack… — Rodney Dangerfield 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
And then you're going to have a president whose business empire depends on sort of delivering certain policies. For example, one thing… — Jill Stein 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
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
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation… — Pattie Boyd Copy Share Image
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image