Falling Empires Quotes

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

Joni Mitchell

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

Janet Morris

#3. Up the hill, sheep bleat, oblivious to human empires rising and falling.

David Mitchell

#4. Music is the perfect type of art.

Oscar Wilde

#5. The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling.

Robert Charles Wilson

#6. The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

Judith Martin

#7. You will always rebel," he whispered in her ear. "Against power. Against control. Against the will of others. It is in your very blood, Ava. I may have fallen, but you ripped the threads of heaven itself to get what you wanted.

Elizabeth Hunter

#8. Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

John Malkovich

#9. I want you to love me in particular.

Daniel Handler

#10. Trying to figure it all out is impossible. But what isn't impossible is to:
Have gratitude
Stay Positive
Have faith
Be friendly and kind
Listen first; speak second
Do your best, not try to be the best
Enjoy the ride!

Charles F. Glassman

#11. I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. "Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs."
"And yet," he said softly, "you're risking everything to help me.

Kate Avery Ellison

#12. I just love, I love, I love movies.

Laura Dern

#13. Rows upon rows of books, lining built-in shelves that stretched from the floor to the ceiling.

Michelle Hodkin

#14. 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

#15. There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it

Andrew Schneider

#16. In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

Simon Pegg