Empire Quotes
Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.
No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.
It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.
Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest.
In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.
Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.
Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.
Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary.
It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.
Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.
Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions
It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.
It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride.
Stay up building your empire if you must, cut all negative ties if you must, sacrifice some things if you must, but above all, never forget the reason why you wanted to be successful.
They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest.
Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.
Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.
... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?
The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
