Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Edward Said

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Donald Rumsfeld

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

Daniel Pinkwater

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

John Boyd Orr

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Karl Marx

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.