Empires Quotes - Page 10

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington, and foreign policy has just not been on anybody's screen, unfortunately.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

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

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job

The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, This man surely will be emperor; he is so early.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.