Rise and Fall Quotes

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

Things of this World are in so constant a Flux, that nothing remains long in the same State. Thus People, Riches, Trade, Power, change their Stations; flourishing mighty Cities come to ruine, and prove in time neglected desolate Corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous Countries, fill'd with Wealth and Inhabitants.

We rise and fall as one people, one nation.

You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.

Empires can only decline when other nations decline and make way for them.

I love 'Scarface.'

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

History is full of changings of the guard—some for the better, some for the worse.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

From nothing to everything is a long way, from everything to nothing is one stop.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

Nothing can stay great forever, and nothing can stay horrible forever.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

I've been around so long that I've seen rappers make it and plummet.

How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That is in some ways what the actual Star Wars saga gets at, with the tale of the rise and the fall of the empire and the rise and the fall of Republics.

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.

Look at the history of empires. They come and they go. They ebb and they flow.