The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career. — E-40 Copy Share Image
I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use. — Qin Shi Huang Copy Share Image
The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire. — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Territorial expansion demands warriors and, once population levels are stable, demotes the female role. Once religious empires have not just an idea… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British… — Philip French Copy Share Image
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British… — Florence King 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
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 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
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
Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley 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
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