Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Trout

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Voltaire

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Walter Scott

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

Eric S. Raymond

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

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.

Pat Buchanan

Empire breeds terrorism.

Pythagoras

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

Lauren Conrad

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

Alex Rodriguez

I always enjoy my stay here in Canada. It's one of those places where you just feel comfortable.

Stacey McAlpine

He's got his fair share of experience playing for Team Canada and wearing the Team Canada colors. He's proud to be a Canadian and is pretty excited about coming back to Canada.

Kirk Pengilly

He seemed to have the whole package. Canada must be proud of him.

Ezra Levant

He should be lucky we have freedom of speech in Canada because if we were in a country that didn't, he'd be in jail.

Bruce Arena

I think you can't overreact from one game, the Norway game, and ignore the Canada game. You judge players over time, not over a game. As he continues to move forward we'll have a better feel for the direction he's headed. Obviously, he's getting better. From my perspective, I need to see if he's developing into a guy who should be a player on the World Cup roster and can help us win a game.

Yasser Elguindi

If you gave oil companies a choice between the tar sands in Canada or oil in Saudi Arabia, which do you think they'd choose?

Deborah Ellis

In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.

Clara Hughes

I think all of us fundamentally hope it has an effect on the youth of Canada, because all of us were inspired by Olympics past.

Tom Ridge

Clearly, Canada is not going to send troops to Iraq. That's just a fact and you've made that decision ... so that's off the table. But maybe we re-engage on softwood, re-engage on missile defense. It's an opportunity.

Walter Bagehot

A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.