Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. — George William Curtis 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
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
“Achievement was worth of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the… — Thomas Cranmer Copy Share Image
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more… — Livy Copy Share Image
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome. — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming.… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town… — Giambattista Valli Copy Share Image
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
