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.

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.

Cardinal Richelieu

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

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.

Esther Hicks

You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

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?

Anton LaVey

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

John Gibbons

He was outstanding. I still don't know why the Mets got rid of him.

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?

Elizabeth Bowen

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

Dave Eggers

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

David Ruffin

I knew I always wanted to sing.

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 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.

David Sedaris

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

Earl Campbell

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