Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Chris Christie

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.

Chita Rivera

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

Chinua Achebe

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Edward James Olmos

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Edward Gibbon

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

Eddie Izzard

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

Eddie Izzard

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

David Duke

More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Barbara Amiel

We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.

Angela Carter

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Andre Braugher

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

Susan Sontag

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Tacitus

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

Maurice de Vlaminck

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...

Charles Caleb Colton

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Italian Proverb

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world

Guy Laliberte

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

Moshe Sharett

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

Pierre Corneille

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Benjamin Franklin

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

James Lane Allen

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Jeremy Shockey

This can be one of those setup games where we feel like, oh, we conquered something. But you know what? We haven't done anything.

Colin McRae

It's a real pity we had that puncture. The fight with Dani was fantastic. But I'm not sure that we could have conquered the first place. To finish second here is for me a great result on my first outing in Germany !