Empires Quotes
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.
The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.