Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make. — Mario Daniel Vega Copy Share Image
“Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations. — Jack Levin Copy Share Image
“Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive And that’s what makes the calm sea alive” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“You taste so fucking amazing.” He brought his head up and Laurel could see the violent rise and fall of his chest.… — Cara McKenna Copy Share Image
You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
“Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“The children’s happy cries rise and fall in the evening light as imperfect and irrevocable as the past, and he stands in… — Gregorio C. Brillantes Copy Share Image
The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ...… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
“She had an image of her unborn child, its head up under her heart, its ear pressed to the wall of her… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Lie down there on the sofa and see if I can put you to sleep. He took up his violin fom the… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“His arms tighten around me slightly, and my breath catches in my throat. He’s still sitting on his tall barstool, and I’m… — Angie Hockman Copy Share Image
“for simplicity’s sake, let us assume I am the center of creation. In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories:… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“as in Leopold’s colony, both the French territories and the German Cameroons were wracked by long, fierce rebellions against the rubber regime.… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“You humans are biological machines designed to create ever more intelligent tools. You have reached the pinnacle of your species. All your… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The 9/11 Commission warned that Al Qaeda "could... scheme to wield weapons of unprecedented destructive power in the largest cities of the… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
“Tides and the 2,000-Mile Man What causes the seas to rise and fall as if they were breathing two big breaths every… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“I began my mindfulness exercises and focused on how the water felt against my skin, how my toes felt as I raised… — John Marrs Copy Share Image
“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: —A day of dappled seaborne clouds. The phrase… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair beside the bed. He… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The moment his lips hit mine I felt my insides turn to mush. I wanted to pull away, but couldn't. All the… — Jessica Miller Copy Share Image
“I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasure of gold and gems as so… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
“Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge… — William Shakespeare 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
