Behinds Quote by Sherwin B. Nuland

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost…

— Frank Herbert

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

— Erin Morgenstern

“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost…

— Frank Herbert

One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day…

— Anonymous

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

— Ovid

Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching…

— Robert Grudin

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

— Wes Nisker

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is…

— Martin Van Buren

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

— Steve Allen

“Empires rose and fell, and still the speaker droned on in his cicada-like monotony...”

— John Green

In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to…

— George Henry Lewes

...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and…

— Hermann Hesse