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If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.


Dan Quisenberry
Tags: Get Able Fall
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
Joseph Jacobs
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Peter Jennings
Tags: Religion How Am
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles
Tags: Me Like Trying
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
Arthur L. Herman
Tags: How Most Even
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor
Tags: Like Were Down
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For me, I do not wish to build an empire.


Eric Ripert
Tags: Me Wish Build
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
Pankaj Mishra
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The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.


Joseph Sobran
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.


Charles de Montesquieu
I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
Victoria Aveyard
Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.
Donald Trump
Tags: Great Just Really
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
Neville Chamberlain
Tags: War Much Big
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
John Boyd Orr
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
F. Sionil Jose
Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
Adam Christopher
Tags: More Than World
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Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.


Dean Acheson
Tags: Great Found Role
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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.


John Lothrop Motley
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The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.


Edward Bond
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.


Samuel Butler
Tags: Beauty Make Give
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
Fay Wray
Tags: You Up Want
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I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.


Lauren Conrad
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.


Herbert Kaufman
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.
Elaine Pagels
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If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.


Robert D. Kaplan
Tags: History You Were
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke
Tags: Great Politics Go
A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
Nostradamus
Tags: Great Will Make
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.


Victoria Beckham
Tags: Like Want Would
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
Rudolf Nureyev
Tags: Time Me Because
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.
Noah Feldman
Tags: About Just Being
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
Tags: You American End
A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
James Pinckney Miller
Tags: Because Out He
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.
Mark Lawrence
Tags: Know Even Thought
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
Benazir Bhutto
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
Eric Kandel
Tags: War World Years
If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Tags: Always Which Then
I did sing in another film called 'Empire Records' which is a cult film. 'Grease 2' is also a cult film. You either love it or just think the original was better.
Maxwell Caulfield
Tags: You Think Just
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
Oliver Ellsworth
Tags: Power Will Other
Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
Robert Collier
Tags: Power You Your