Empires Fall Quotes

#1. Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#2. There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

Kevin J. Anderson

#3. The coin turns; where it falls, nobody knows.
The coin turns, empires rise and empires fall, men live and men die, babies scream and dead men sigh; the world changes but people are always and are never the same.

Claire North

#4. All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...

Michael Moorcock

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

Marisha Pessl

#6. The day humans cease playing with their imaginations, is the day the empires fall!

Anonymous

#7. Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

Fred Van Lente

#8. As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

William Habington

#9. All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

Erin Morgenstern

#10. Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

#11. A time is one's own, Eva, when oneself and one's peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise, a man is ruined when the times change but he does not. Permit me to add, empires fall for the same reason.

David Mitchell

#12. Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

Ozzy Osbourne

#13. When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Ezra Pound

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

Noah Feldman

#15. While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

Robert Burns

#16. We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

Terence McKenna

#17. Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Wes Nisker

#18. Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#19. That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Amelia Barr

#20. But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.

John Wyndham

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

Martin Scorsese

#22. Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

Peter Greenaway

#23. All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.

Rawi Hage

#24. Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.

Annalee Newitz

#25. Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

John Boyd Orr

#26. If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social movements take place - it's a numbers game. And when you reach that number, the truth becomes obvious and empires of injustice crumble and fall.

Louie Psihoyos

#27. Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

Joni Mitchell

#28. It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.

Rod Duncan

#29. Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. - Boris Karpov

Eric Van Lustbader

#30. Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

Janet Morris

#31. Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

Iain M. Banks