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The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
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.
En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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.
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.
First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.
I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.
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.
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.
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.