Quotes of: Roman-empire Keyword

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

Robert Kiyosaki

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

Marianne Faithfull

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

Chris Messina

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

Ezra Stiles

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

Takeru Kobayashi

Jim: [during an American airstrike] P-51! Cadillac of the sky!

Empire of the Sun

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Edmund Husserl

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

Tom Wolfe

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church

As events would show, Cixi was indeed opposed to the foreign policy of her husband and his inner circle – but for very different reasons. Silently observing from close quarters, she in fact regarded their stubborn resistance to opening the door of ...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans – is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It conde...

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religion from Arabia, a powerful empire emerged, and with...

Jim Al-Khalili

Yoda: Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

C-3PO: [R2 is outside the Hoth base, scanning the area] You must come along now R2. There's really nothing more we can do. And my joints are freezing up. [R2 Beeps something about Luke] C-3PO: Don't say things like that! Of course we'll see Master Lu...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Lando: Lord Vader, what about Leia and the Wookiee? Darth Vader: They must never again leave this city. Lando: [outraged] That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving Han to this bounty hunter! Darth Vader: Perhaps you think you're bei...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

Evening's Empires

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

The Final Empire

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

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