Empires Quotes
Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.
The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.