Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual. - Frank Herbert
I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry. - Moffat Machingura
My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow. - Andrew Marvell
May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates; may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies. - Virchand Gandhi
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. - Winston S. Churchill
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die. - Kevin J. Anderson
Great empires are not maintained by timidity. - Tacitus
Strength builds empires that last for decades. Wisdom builds empires that last for centuries. Love builds empires that last forever. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. - Sir Winston Churchill
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. - Edward Thorndike
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin! - Joseph Warren