Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Edward Said

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Daniel Pinkwater

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

Donald Rumsfeld

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

John Oliver

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Ben Vereen

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Bob Brown

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Doris Lessing

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Ann Aguirre

I never belonged anywhere until I met you.

Dr. Seuss

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

David Gest

I was already set for life when I met her.

Anton LaVey

I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.

David Sedaris

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

David Ruffin

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Earl Campbell

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Charlize Theron

I've always known I wanted a family.

Bernard Marcus

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

Diane Abbott

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Diane von Furstenberg

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

Diane von Furstenberg

I always knew the woman I wanted to be.

Brigitte Bardot

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.