Quotes On The Rise And Fall Of Nations

#1. When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

Bruce R. McConkie

#2. Few men are a threat to a fully-trained wizard.
Oren the Wise

Scott Robert Scheller

#3. Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

Carlos P. Romulo

#4. We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

Barack Obama

#5. I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

Dasha Zhukova

#6. Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

Beryl Markham

#7. People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation ... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

Gerard Way

#8. Get a grip, Dad. I'm not going to do anything you wouldn't do at my age.'
He stands up and says, 'That's it. You're canceling this date.

Simone Elkeles

#9. I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

Carlos P. Romulo

#11. Van Eck raised a brow. How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Emile Durkheim

#13. I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

Billy Collins

#14. I don't hafta taste it to know it taste funny. It already looks like it taste funny.

Dennis The Menace

#15. It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

Carl Sagan

#16. It is the sensitive people in any organization that become aware of the need to discover the acceptable "middle" ground between "profit only" and "people only" and act accordingly.

Herman L Glaess

#17. Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#18. Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

John Loengard

#19. Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#20. You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible.
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival.

Leonard Cohen

#21. The God of freedom, the true God, is ... not recognized by his power and glory in the history of the world, but through his helplessness and his death on the scandal of the cross of Jesus

Jurgen Moltmann

#22. It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.

Mark Twain

#23. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

John F. Kennedy

#24. Despots are elected and deposed.
Laws are passed and repealed.
Nations rise and fall.
Individual liberty is eternal.

A.E. Samaan