Emperor Quotes

204 quotes by 167 authors

Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of… — Paul Farmer
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone… — Niles Eldredge
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's… — Kit Williams
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. — William Butler Yeats
When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and… — Laozi
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! — James Finn Garner
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who… — Saint Augustine
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of… — Arthur E Waite
How dangerous emperors are when they go mad. — Walid Jumblatt
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor. — Mo Yan
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds in bloom. The… — John Templeton
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered… — William Butler Yeats
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has… — Joseph Weizenbaum
The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. — William Butler Yeats
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti… — Mao Zedong
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be… — Michael Eric Dyson
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the… — Hirohito

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