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Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life - keep moving. — Mark Lawrence

We'd better eat before we raise hell." - Aelin Ashrvyer Galathynius — Sarah J. Maas

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles De Gaulle

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands. — Tommy Smith

No doubt the Romans had felt that theirs was an eternal civilization, right up to the moment their empire fell apart. Were they suicides, too? — Michel Houellebecq

Of course, there are many rich men in the empire, but their money is buried, and they dress in rags and counterfeit poverty. — Mark Twain

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it. — Ryan Bingham

The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty. — J.M. Coetzee

It's what I am, and if you want excuses, come and take them. — Mark Lawrence

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire. — Alice Hoffman

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. — Tacitus

An empire built on blood and fire. The Valyrians reaped the seed they had sown. — George R R Martin

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This time they're making sure they can hold what they take: conquest is always easier than subjugation. — Yoon Ha Lee

to plunder, slaughter and robbery they give the lying name of empire; — Yuval Noah Harari

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"? — William Cobbett

The empire of custom is most mighty. — Publilius Syrus

His workplace has become a rat's nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft. — Thomas Pynchon

Nations rise, they flourish for a time, and then they decline. Eventually every empire comes to an end; not even the greatest can last forever. — Billy Graham

An empire is an immense egotism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I get what I desire, it's my empire — Nicki Minaj

I say one evil empire down ... one to go. — Michael Moore

Building an empire ... one letter in front of the other. — Coco J. Ginger

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. — Chris Johnson

The Japanese discussed extending their empire, Bexforth went on. They had already annexed the vast region of Manchuria, Greg — Ken Follett

But words are only words and they seldom turn a person from their path unless they want to be turned. — Mark Lawrence

In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives - the climber, though he may die young, will have lived. — Mark Lawrence

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies. — Fred Van Lente

Although crimes may win an empire, they do not win glory. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they're not men at all. — Mark Lawrence

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. — Tacitus

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together. — Neil MacGregor

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. — William Wordsworth

And in the months since the destruction of the Empire's dread battle station, we have already liberated countless planets in the name of the Alliance. — Chuck Wendig

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!! — Napoleon Bonaparte

I get what I desire, it's my empire
And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire — Nicki Minaj

I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer. — Mark Lawrence

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky

You're not my enemy, but your Empire is. — Robert Jordan

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire. — Pat Buchanan

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole. — Thomas Hutchinson

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth. — James A. Garfield

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire. — Daniel Pinkwater

They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest. — Sarah J. Maas

Neither does the British Empire for which Churchill fought with all his heart. And no one believes what they read in the newspapers any more. — Michael Dobbs

One day every soldier in the empire has to shower in the blood of your sacrificial bull. The next they don't even remember your birthday. — Neil Gaiman

The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been. — Luo Guanzhong

They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Mark Lawrence

Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. — Orison Swett Marden

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire ... — Cardinal Richelieu

I held to my anger, drank from my well of poison. These things are not good things, but at least they're mine. — Mark Lawrence

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet. — Chris Avellone

What did we want with an Empire! It — Ford Madox Ford

To ravage, to slaughter, to steal, this they give the false name of empire; and where they create a desert, they call it peace. — Tacitus

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people. — Hugo Chavez

The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves. — Liu Cixin

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause. — Michael Kazin

Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world. — Yuval Noah Harari

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting. — Sienna Miller

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. — Albert Camus

Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world. — Mark Lawrence

The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink. — Mark Lawrence

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire. — Emile De Girardin

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. — Mark Rutte

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. — Wilhelm II

Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright. — Mark Lawrence

America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax. — C.L. Gammon

For all his youth, he seemed to be willing himself to the edge of an adult despair. — J.G. Ballard

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity — Guy Debord

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. — Walter Scott

I've never taken a woman on a beach," - Rowan Whitethorn — Sarah J. Maas

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley

Through the international hotel empire, the Hilton name has become synonymous with class and sophistication. — Jerry Oppenheimer

We've been an empire in decline since I can remember," Ketchum said bluntly; he wasn't kidding. "We are a lost nation, Danny. Stop farting around. — John Irving

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it. — Luke Montgomery

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill

man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off. — Rock Hudson

I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him. — Tasha Smith

Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for. — Scott Westerfeld

Vision, of the Ittihadists and, by extension, Kemal Ataturk, did not include the non-Muslim population of what was once the Ottoman Empire. — Eric Bogosian

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. — Ken Dodd

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. — Joseph Barbera

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire. — Bias Of Priene

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty. — Mark Lawrence

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. — John Lennon

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage. — Daniel Wallace

But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear. — Mark Lawrence

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts. — China Mieville

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. — Herbert Kaufman

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again. — Andrew Cuomo

Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization — Ta-Nehisi Coates

People who talk about the weather would be better served by admitting they've nothing to say but like the sound of their own voice. — Mark Lawrence

This analogy can also be found in Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 20. [19] — Michael Hardin

For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government. — Henry Kissinger