Top 1200 British Empire Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. It was never really lost. But it would be no bad thing if the feeling that swept the country then were to continue to inspire us. For if there was any doubt about the determination of the British people it was removed by the men and women who, a few months ago, brought a renewed sense of pride and self-respect to our country.

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

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

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

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

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

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

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

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.

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

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

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

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

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

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

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

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

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

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

Someone that I'm really inspired by, and that I look up to, is Oprah. It's amazing how she created such an empire.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

I come from a family where my father did things single-handedly and he built a music empire himself.

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

Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to BP. Who's company is that? British Petroleum, isn't it? I suppose that is not bad. I have to tell that British Petroleum's capitalization is significantly related to the fact that it owns more than 19 percent of Rosneft, which has vast oil reserves both in Russia and abroad. This has its impact on the company's stability as well.

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

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

Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

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

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

I love the introduction of international managers and players into the Premier League. However Manchester United's principles through their history had always been: they will appoint a British manager, there will always promote youth, they will always play a certain style of football, they will always look to entertain. So to me the idea of appointing a British manager, David Moyes, appointing somebody who deserved that opportunity to step up, was the right principle.

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

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

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

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

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

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

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

Tell the British people if the Iraqis are subjected to aggression or humiliation they would fight bravely. Just as the British people did in the Second World War and we will defend our country as they defended their country each in its own way. The Iraqis don't wish war but if war is imposed upon them - if they are attacked and insulted - they will defend themselves. They will defend their country, their sovereignty and their security.

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

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

Too much of the Brexit rhetoric is based on the desire to go out and re-create Empire.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

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

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

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

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

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