Quotes of: Emperor Keyword

In the 300 years of the crucifixion of Christ to the conversion of Emperor Constantine, polytheistic Roman emperors initiated no more than four general persecutions of Christians. Local administrators and governors incited some anti-Christian violenc...

Unknown

Darth Vader: What is thy bidding, my master? The Emperor: Send the fleet to the far side of Endor. There it will stay until called for. Darth Vader: What of the reports of the rebel fleet massing near Sullust? The Emperor: It is of no concern. Soon t...

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

Emperor of Thorns

Great ambition without contribution is without significance. The Emperor's Club

Steve William Laible

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Charles V

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Barack Obama

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Jean de La Fontaine

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

Jack Kingston

Have you heard the joke about the chemist, physicist and economist who get wrecked on a desert isle, with a huge supply of canned baked beans as their only food? The chemist says that he can start a fire using the neighbouring palm trees, and calcula...

Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

Gundar seemed to come to a decision. "Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do ...

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Every hour be firmly resolved... to accomplish the work at hand with fitting and unaffected dignity, goodwill, freedom, justice. Banish from your thoughts all other considerations. This is possible if you perform each act as if it were your last, rej...

The Emperor's Handbook Publisher: Scribner

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you ...

The Emperor's Soul

Tom Hagen: When a plot against the Emperor failed... the plotters were always given a chance... to let their families keep their fortunes. Right? Frank Pentangeli: Yeah, but only the rich guys, Tom. The little guys got knocked off and all their estat...

The Godfather: Part II

Faith is the emperor of dreams.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

Marcel Carne

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

Yoko Ono

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

David Tang

Napoleon: Kings and pawns, marshal. Emperors and fools.

The Count of Monte Cristo

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Willa Cather

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Lord Byron