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Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.


Frank Herbert


#emperor #religion #scytale #leadership

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.


Mira Nair


#am #artifice #best #children #clothes

Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I had walked with kings and conversed in languages never heard in this land. Once I had stood at the prow of a Sea Wolf ship and sailed oceans unknown to seamen here. I had ridden horses through desert lands, and dined on exotic foods in Arab tents. I had roamed Constantinople’s fabled streets, and bowed before the Holy Roman Emperor’s throne. I had been a slave, a spy, a sailor. Advisor and confidant of lords, I had served Arabs, Byzantines, and barbarians. I had worn captive’s rags, and the silken robes of a Sarazen prince. Once I had held a jeweled knife and taken a life with my own hand. Yes, and once I had held a loving woman in my arms and kissed her warm and willing lips...Death would have been far, far better than the gnawing, aching emptiness that was now my life.


Stephen R. Lawhead


#despair #holy-roman-emperor #memories #death

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.


Willa Cather


#emperor #fact #girl #i #never

It becomes an emperor to die standing.


Titus Flavius Vespasian


#die #emperor #standing

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.


Camille Claudel


#am #art #benevolent #cholera #emperor

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.


Emperor Charles V


#humorous-quotes #languages #humor

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.


John Foxe


#emperor #first #persecution #place #rome

Chic, is first, when you don't have to prove you have money, either because you have a lot and it doesn't matter or because you don't have any and it doesn't matter. Chic is not aspirational. Chic is the most impossible thing to define. Luxury is a humorless thing, largely, and when humor happens in luxury it happens involuntarily. Chic is all about humor. Which means chic is about intelligence. And there has to be oddness-- most luxury is conformist, and chic cannot be. Chic must be polite and not incommode others, but within that it can be as weird as it wants.


Luca Turin


#parfum #perfume #humor

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.


Bertolt Brecht


#been #carry #emperors #even #finest






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