But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world… — Paul Einzig Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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
Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it… — Jonathan Gottschall 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
She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall. — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
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