America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Nothing compares to Rome. Nothing. People there are crazy about football - in a positive way. — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith,… — Waris Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
We'll go on vacation, but we don't really care to go see Rome or anything. We just want to play dominoes. We… — Jimmy Butler Copy Share Image
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has… — Augustus Copy Share Image
I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“the old and worn buildings held a theatrical magic to their fading façades. They were weathered almost by design; they almost looked… — Robertson Tait Copy Share Image
This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will… — John Hagee 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
“The Pantheon was huge, but this thing is so massive, I can’t even take it all in at once. I have to… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person.… — Mark Doty 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
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome — Suetonius 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
Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether. — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“(Rome) is a Metropolitan Museum of Art the size of Manhattan, no roof, no display cases, and half a million combustion engines… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn. — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
I do remember one of the first great experiences of going to Europe was playing in Rome hearing the people sing our… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in… — Willa Cather 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
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
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