Fall Of The British Empire Quotes

#1. In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not exist. There will be plenty of other causes. You and me and poor Jones will not even figure in a footnote. It will be all economics, politics, battles.

Graham Greene

#2. It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully.

Patrick Ness

#4. Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Soulja Boy

#5. Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

Harville Hendrix

#6. There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

Len Wein

#7. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,I pay thee, Lord, my soul to take.

Lauren Oliver

#8. When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

Michael Savage

#9. I do not support citizenship for those already here illegally. Those who cut the line and broke our laws as their first act entering this country have foregone that opportunity.

Carly Fiorina

#10. 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

#11. Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.

Gottlob Frege

#12. Sometimes, they just make coffee cups too small.

Michelle M. Pillow

#13. When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#14. We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.

Bell Hooks

#16. Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.

Steven Pressfield

#17. Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead."
"Of course he's dead. He's a skeleton.

Derek Landy

#18. And the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

Stephenie Meyer