Romans Quotes
174 quotes by 141 authors
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely…
— Anthony Bourdain
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a…
— Nicolas Cage
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The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.
— Amy Chua
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them…
— Adolf Hitler
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ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.
— Ambrose Bierce
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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict…
— Jerry Bridges
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Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.
— Hannibal
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Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul…
— Jerry Bridges
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire…
— Dan Barker
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We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it…
— Franklin Graham
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language…
— Bill Bryson
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The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect…
— Joseph Haydn
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I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
— Samuel Johnson
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America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence.…
— John F. Kerry
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I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce…
— Alan Titchmarsh
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The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to…
— Thomas Paine
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