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

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals. — Lou Holtz

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

Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war. — Kate Atkinson

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it. — Baron De Montesquieu

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

The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written. — Fulton J. Sheen

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill

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

Confirmed. Complete negative on Imperial activity,' Yendor replied. 'Unless the Empire's drafting small woodland creatures all of a sudden. — Claudia Gray

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. — Baruch Spinoza

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

No good government but what is republican ... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams

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

The Rome he has been trained to serve, the Rome of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone. In its place stood Neronopolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat. — James Romm

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

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII Of France

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. — Eric Kandel

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill

Perhaps, Kublai thought, the empire is nothing but a zodiac of the mind's phantasms. — Italo Calvino

We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God — Sunday Adelaja

Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel. — James S.A. Corey

In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You're the empire I'd protect. You're my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You're my freedom. — Sarah Noffke

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. — Mike Myers

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max. — Max Walker

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all. — Francois Fenelon

Walt Disney: An American Original, "a man gave birth to a mouse. The mouse built the man an empire. — Jeffrey Barnes

[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

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

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby

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

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. — Chalmers Johnson

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. — Socrates

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. — Pat Buchanan

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you — Genghis Khan

When she saw the opportunity to flee, she would take it. She would bring the hounds of the empire howling down on this city. — Marie Rutkoski

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. — John Oliver

MPAA. The idea that piracy is an effective form of resistance, a direct attack on the corporate empire, is confirmed by the reaction it has provoked: — Astra Taylor

Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours. — Mark Lawrence

THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED. — Gavin G. Smith

To me the greatest possible horror is not that humanity might end, but that our Empire of Stupidity might last forever. — M. Suddain

So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
- IV:22 — Suetonius

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

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

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. — Mencius

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore ... — Joseph Brodsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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