#empire

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

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

— Eric S. Raymond

#berkeley #corporate #empires #hackers #liked

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#brits #comfortable #empire #had #i

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#drained #empire #great #idlers #into

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#diminished #easily #edges #empire #great

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. ↗

— King Hussein I

#dotted #empires #every #great #haunting

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said? ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#create #done #empire #fair #fair shake

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

#air conditioning #barbarians #brought #coming #conditioning

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#empire #erected #fifth #grave #liberty

I first became aware of death when my father held me up to see the view from the top of the Empire State Building. I thought that if he moved me just one foot over, I would die. But I trusted him to hold me tight. I wouldn’t fall over, and he would place me down safely. ↗

— Chrissi Sepe

#empire-state-building #death