“Rome was not built in one day and you do not have to be perfect.” — Arrmon Abedikichi Copy Share Image
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. — Livy Copy Share Image
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York.… — Robert De Niro 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
Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never… — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Although the Romans knew Chinese silk, they knew not China. They believed that silk grew directly on the mulberry tree, not realizing… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet,… — Sarah B. Pomeroy Copy Share Image
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul… — Gordon Clark Copy Share Image
At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
“The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings… — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
On the night of June 30, 1990, a minibus in which I was travelling was involved in a head-on collision on a… — Harry Redknapp Copy Share Image
“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. — Ambrose Copy Share Image
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was,… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
If Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing. — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
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