Quotes of: Empire-state Keyword

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Housekeeping vs. the Dirt

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Colin Quinn

It’s spring now, and I was just thinking that I haven’t been in love since the fall. The fall of the Roman Empire.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Talcott Parsons

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

Felix Dennis

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of oth...

Antony Beevor

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

James Buchan

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Garrison Keillor

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

George Oppen

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

Doris Lessing

Luke: All right, I'll give it a try. Yoda: No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[after choking Captain Needa to death] Darth Vader: Apology accepted, Captain Needa.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Captain Needa: They can't have disappeared. No ship that small has a cloaking device.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Lando: How you doin' Chewbacca? Still hanging around with this loser?

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Darth Vader: The force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

C-3PO: I'm terribly sorry about all this. After all, he's only a Wookiee.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Han Solo: No time to discuss this as a committee. Princess Leia: I am not a committee!

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Echo Base Officer: Echo station 3-T-8, we have spotted Imperial walkers.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Han Solo: [after being tortured] I feel terrible.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

C-3PO: [in 1997 Special Edition only] Oh, this is suicide! There's nowhere to go.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back