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empires misery humans
The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
empires roles found
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
empire four state time
I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. Takeru Kobayashi
empires poet modern
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Dana Gioia
empire roman terms values
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly. Ben Carson
empire kong model proportion state worked
Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size. Fay Wray
empire ground ought roman
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. Dan Quisenberry
empire family few trying
I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right. Rita Ora
empires sometimes lost
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire... Cardinal Richelieu
given no-hope pledge
God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill. Charles Spurgeon
given guy guys perception
The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win. Lee Janzen
given park rules
We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed. Sharon Stewart
given life lived name people talk tony
I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. Nicolas Roeg
given movies sad
A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
given relevant considering
I have given up considering happiness as relevant. Edward Gorey
given hoard wealth
Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours. Sathya Baba
given heck love sharks shocked
What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it. Luc Robitaille
given
We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given. Bill McKibben
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
powerful weak said
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. Charles Stanley
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
torn
I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
torn
Some of our fliers get torn down, and we just have to go and put them back up.
torn
He's got a partially torn MCL, he's got a torn ACL, ... He's out 4-6 months.
torn
He's independent enough that he doesn't want us to go back there, and he's told us so. We're really torn about it.
tornado
Hey, Mark, you can't see the tornado now,
tornadoes twists hours
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command. John Piper
tornado
About twenty-minutes before the tornado got here, we got down in our basement.
tornadoes randomness feels
We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural. Michael Koryta
tornadoes destructive
The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family. Reynolds Price