Empire Quotes
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New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
Walter Tevis -
With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.
Bryan Ward-Perkins
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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.
Aime Martin -
I am not in the market to create jobs, build an empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
This is my empire, Uriang-Khadai. I will not be made to leave. Ready the tumans for battle, Orlok. I will face my enemies and I will destroy them.
Conn Iggulden -
I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.
Anthony B Pinn -
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
Thomas Carlyle
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If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?
Rickie Lee Jones -
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
Walter Brueggemann -
Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.
Coco J. Ginger -
Can one move an empire as if it were a house?
Ismail Kadare -
I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.
Nicole Polizzi
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A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
Thomas Carlyle -
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
Ezra Pound -
Every empire eventually falls.
Michael Douglas -
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
Nouriel Roubini -
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin