Top 1200 British Empire Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].

I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.'

It's impossible not to be aware of the Ryan Murphy empire, but he is so kind and funny, and you feel in such safe hands every day.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

When Young Dolph dead and gone, people still going to be talking about the Paper Route Empire.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

I went into a Whole Foods to buy chewable vitamin C and got tackled by, like, 15 girls who watch 'Empire.'

During Manmohan Singh's formative years, it was a matter of great pride to be called to the Indian Civil Service for serving the Empire.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance. They way of life is British; their allegiance is to the Crown. It is the wish of the British people and the duty of Her Majesty's Government to do everything that we can to uphold that right. That will be our hope and our endeavour, and, I believe, the resolve, of every Member of this House.

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

I don't know if we would have stuff like 'Deadwood' and 'Boardwalk Empire' if 'Twin Peaks' had never happened.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

I think I went through early years of my career sort of thinking, "Well, maybe I'm just not British enough." And I always remember my father saying to me, "Don't think you're English, because however English you feel, some Englishman is going to remind you that you're not." Now, for him it must have been a much more acute experience, because he immigrated to England. I was born there, so I kind of felt I had the right to assume that I was British, but it's true. The English are a very warm and welcoming people, but there's a streak in there that reminds you, occasionally.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

But that was our thing from day one: to make Paper Route Empire strong. That's why I never wanted to sign to no label.

Before I finished my undergraduate degree, I found 'TYT' and dedicated myself to helping it grow into a digital news empire.

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.

A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.

I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.