#me

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ↗

— William Blake

#degrade #empire #englishmen #follows #foundation

I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#been #champion #come #dream #i

In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#became #been #before #dedicated #i

It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#always #been #came #country #easier

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#athletes #biggest #came #carry #comes

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#been #dozen times #hadn #half-dozen #i

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#centuries #condition #conditioned #female #sacrifice

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. ↗

— James Dobson

#husbands #leadership #merely #observation #their

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#amazing #amazing thing #back #book #come

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#ago #always #changed #deal #haven