Top 24 Empires Rise And Fall Quotes
#1. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.
Edwin Markham
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.
Eckhart Tolle
#5. It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.
Washington Irving
#6. Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. - Boris Karpov
Eric Van Lustbader
#9. 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
#10. Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally inundated with demands from hundreds of think tanks and public-policy groups, all vying for my limited funds
Mark Skousen
#11. Thought you were
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Raphael said
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'I said, no way in hell
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'Damn straight
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and Ransom was ready to come
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woke up and I had wings!
Nalini Singh
#12. 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
#14. 'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level.
Robert Gottlieb
#15. Worst thing would be that Darling killed her. And then he'll probably shoot me and add me to his monument in the yard. But
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese
#17. 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
#18. No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.
Edgard Varese
#19. Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.
Epicurus
#20. 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
#21. He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#22. Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.
Wes Nisker
#23. 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
#24. There's nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.
Rafael Yglesias
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