Empires Quote by Al Stewart Download Open image “Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.” — Al Stewart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empires Fall Future Looks Past Premonition Remember Sooner or later Time
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. — Noah Feldman 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 time of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing. — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
“The literati in their cellars Perform semantic tarantellas. I wish I did it half as well as them.” — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
“Don't bother asking for explanation, she'll just tell you that she came, in the year of the cat.” — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre,… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire… — Paul von Hindenburg 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
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image