The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“And although cars and motorcycles zipped around, all he saw was the girl coming toward him like a scene in a movie.” — Peter Leonard 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
In every city where there are two teams, the rivalry is very intense. Rome, Milan, everywhere - it's very strong. — Roberto Mancini Copy Share Image
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Rome would never have need of a dictator if she had such men in office, men so united in heart, as ready… — Livy Copy Share Image
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Theoderic ruled Italy from Ravenna, the western Roman capital, with a traditional Roman administration, a mixture of senatorial leaders from the city… — Chris Wickham Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come… — Stacy Schiff 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
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman 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
“He probably wanted real power, the power to direct one's environment towards a harmonious end, and not fictitious power, the power to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic… — John Williams Copy Share Image
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had… — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium. Seven... have ever been inside. So the NFL is… — Jerry Jones 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
Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock 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
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. — John Foxe Copy Share Image
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
