Quotes of: American-empire Keyword

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Julie Burchill

Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world. Even on the low level of practical affairs this is patently untrue. Any small human activity...

The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

I didn’t want to argue with my hosts. I wanted them to talk. But I felt like reminding Li that perhaps forty million Chinese people had died of starvation a half century earlier because they followed their government’s orders. It was the largest ...

China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandiz...

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

[Luke can't levitate his X-Wing out of the bog] Luke: I can't. It's too big. Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, mak...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Han Solo: Well Princess, it looks like you managed to keep me here a while longer. Princess Leia: I had nothing to do with it. General Rieekan thinks it's dangerous for anyone to leave the system until they've activated the energy shield. Han Solo: T...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[first lines] Luke: Echo Three to Echo Seven. Han, old buddy, do you read me? Han Solo: Loud and clear, kid. What's up? Luke: Well, I finished my circle. I don't pick up any life readings. Han Solo: There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a ...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[Chewbacca is fixing C-3PO] C-3PO: Oh, yes, that's very good, I like that... Oh! [the lights in his eyes go out] C-3PO: Well, now, something's not right, because now I can't see! [Chewie fiddles with something and his eyes turn back on] C-3PO: Oh, oh...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Darth Vader: What is it, General? General Veers: My Lord, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed. Com Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet of the Hoth System. The field is strong enough to deflect any bombardment. D...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[while the Falcon is fleeing from Imperial fighters, and R2-D2 is stitching C-3PO back together] C-3PO: Noisy brute. Why don't we just go to lightspeed? R2-D2: [beeps] C-3PO: We can't? How would you know the hyperdrive is deactivated? R2-D2: [beeps] ...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

Evening's Empires

Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.

Empire of the Saviours

What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

The Final Empire

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Foundation and Empire

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

Paul Graham

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

Pericles

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

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Steven Spielberg

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Talcott Parsons

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

Luke Montgomery

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

Mustafa Akyol