Top 1200 Boardwalk Empire Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job

I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Being a part of 'Empire' was a wonderful experience and opportunity to work with everyone involved.

Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up to me on the boardwalk of Ocean City, New Jersey and said, "You look a lot like that guy from computer ads" and I said, "There is a reason because I am that guy," and the guy looked at me for a minute, laughed and said, "That's a funny joke, but you really do look like him." He thought I was not me.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol's ratings and 'Empire.'

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

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

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

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

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.