Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pythagoras

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Oswald Mosley

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

Paul Verlaine

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

John Oliver

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

Joseph Chamberlain

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Tony Benn

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

Steven Erikson

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue…

Sallust

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

Stafford Cripps

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

William Booth

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Ovid

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

Natalie Coughlin

I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

Lewis Black

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Lucy Larcom

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

Eric Thomas

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Austin Carlile

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

Thomas Nagel

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't want to throw like an actress.

Claire Bloom

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Bruce Schneier

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.

Julie Walters

I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job.

Raza Jaffrey

I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.

Rose Byrne

The British are so funny.