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It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back. -- Andrew Cuomo
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. -- Robert Trout
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. -- Garrison Keillor
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. -- Pankaj Mishra
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy. -- Anne-Marie Duff
Empire breeds terrorism. -- Pat Buchanan
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations. -- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything. -- Jeremy Bulloch
I am now a commander of the British Empire. -- Kevin Spacey
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence. -- Paul Verlaine
To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. -- Karl Marx
America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. -- Eddie Izzard
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. -- Voltaire
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. -- Ogden Nash
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. -- Mike Myers
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. -- Dave Barry
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. -- Jared Diamond
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. -- Walter Tevis
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The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. -- Deborah Kerr
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. -- Ken Dodd
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. -- Edward Bond
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. -- Robert Benchley
Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time. -- Oswald Mosley
All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!. -- Henry VIII of England
Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. -- Chris Johnson
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. -- Nick Hornby
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. -- Joseph Barbera
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama's empire is called a terrorist. -- Robert Fisk
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... -- Joseph Brodsky
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. -- Pat Buchanan
It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can -- Stafford Cripps
I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use. -- Qin Shi Huang
I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff. -- Jeremy Allen White
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. -- Winston Churchill
The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire. -- Suzy Menkes
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue" -- Steven Erikson
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. -- Peter Jennings
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. -- Dan Quisenberry
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. -- Thomas Hobbes
The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. -- Steven Wright
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. -- Winston Churchill
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. -- Filip Dewinter
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. -- Tony Benn
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. -- Adrian Goldsworthy
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats." -- Robert Trout
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. -- Steven Spielberg
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. -- Kesha
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. -- Gore Vidal
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. -- Joseph Jacobs
I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. -- Takeru Kobayashi
The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States. -- Tariq Ali
Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America. -- Andre Vltchek
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. -- Lord Randolph Churchill
Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be. -- Lee Daniels
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again. -- Andrew Cuomo
I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.' -- CeeLo Green
I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it. -- Chris Messina
I went into a Whole Foods to buy chewable vitamin C and got tackled by, like, 15 girls who watch 'Empire.' -- Jussie Smollett
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. -- Don Rickles
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. -- David Irving
I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins. -- Joss Whedon
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. -- Arthur L. Herman
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. -- Voltaire
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. -- Fay Weldon
I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross. -- Emma Thompson
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire. -- Genghis Khan
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story. -- Craig L. Rice
I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!"-Iggy -- James Patterson
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic. -- Kenneth Lonergan
Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation. -- Lev Gumilev
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
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. -- Timothy Levitch
I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her. -- Rodney Dangerfield
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. -- Edmund Spenser
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. -- Doris Lessing
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus. -- Philip K. Dick
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
[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
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire -- Mike Tyson
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small. -- Thomas Carlyle
You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire. -- Sarah Vowell
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect. -- George Washington
[Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire. -- Tim Buck
Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. -- Cory Doctorow
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
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
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. -- Steven Spielberg
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess, -- Sam Tanenhaus
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. -- Linda Goodman
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. -- Stephen Baxter
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 like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on Boardwalk Empire. -- Vincent Piazza
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long. -- Gary Oldman
When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa? -- Fay Wray
Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity. -- Edward Gibbon
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
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. -- Billy Hughes
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged. -- Douglas Adams
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire. -- J. I. Packer
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that. -- Mark Lawrence
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. -- Abbie Hoffman
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. -- Richard J. Maybury
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated. -- Arthur Koestler
I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on 'Boardwalk Empire.' -- Vincent Piazza
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
Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted. -- Theodor Herzl
The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany. -- Franz Halder
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
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. -- Winston Churchill
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany. -- Franz Halder
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods. -- Susan Jacoby
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one. -- Philip K. Dick

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