Quotes of: Roman-empire Keyword

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

Sienna Miller

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

rassool jibraeel snyman

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

Andrew Cuomo

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Martin H. Fischer

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Noah Feldman

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

Edward Bond

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

John Lothrop Motley

Jim: I can't remember what my parents look like.

Empire of the Sun

Marcus Aurelius: Tell me again, Maximus, why are we here? Maximus: For the glory of the Empire, sire.

Gladiator

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

Linus Torvalds

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

Victoria Beckham

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

Amit Kalantri

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.

Billy Hughes

If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands.

Tommy Smith

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