“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Everybody knows the quote 'Rome was not built in a day' but only few are willing to wait the years! — Soyobi Victoria Copy Share Image
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what… — Alisson Copy Share Image
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I decided with my head to move to Liverpool, but my heart was full of tears. I spent two special years in… — Alisson Copy Share Image
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid… — Orosius Copy Share Image
The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Here are the folks that are involved in this New World Order: The United Nations […] the World Council of Churches […]… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
“That's a poweful ability you've got there. Seriously, I was Contemplating killing Cody so we could be a couple.' She snorted, but… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark, three times one surnamed de Gaulle will lead, Italy and the one of St. Mark… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you:… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston,… — Connie Francis Copy Share Image
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's… — Ed Stoppard Copy Share Image
Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob &… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands… — Giuliana Sgrena Copy Share Image
Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image