Pompeii Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis…
— Marcel Proust
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We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring…
— James R. Schlesinger
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Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia,…
— Diego Della Valle
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On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched.…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
— Robin Williams
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,…
— Susan Vreeland
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People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
— Robert Harris
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A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's…
— Gordon Korman
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We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to…
— Oswald Spengler
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Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.
— Michael Martin Hammer
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We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.
— Marc Morial
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But I'm history to you. You saved me. 2008. You saved us all. Why is that different? The Doctor: Some things are fixed, some things…
— Donna Noble
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I'm a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you. Way back, when we were…
— Donna Noble
Who Wrote These Pompeii Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Pompeii Quotes as follows: