Empire Quotes
-
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
-
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.
-
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?
-
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
-
With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.
-
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.
-
I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.
-
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
-
Can one move an empire as if it were a house?
-
If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
-
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
-
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
-
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.
-
Every empire eventually falls.
-
Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.
-
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.
