In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the… — Letitia Baldrige Copy Share Image
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London… — John Berger Copy Share Image
At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We love you, dude, but I swear to God, if you put me in a position where I have to pick between… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn."… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over… — Bud Wilkinson 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'm always yours, Rule. I will so totally marry you and it would make me happier than anything in the entire world… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image