Romans Quotes
174 Romans quotes by 136 unique authors
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If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing…
— Robert Mondavi
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The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by…
— Elon Musk
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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way…
— John Shelby Spong
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
— Voltaire
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Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa,…
— Martin Filler
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Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.
— Joyce Meyer
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Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The…
— Tom Stoppard
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The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to…
— James Madison
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We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we…
— Richard Rohr
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Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland,…
— Terry Pratchett
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You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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How nice of Acheron to send us a playmate. (Daimon) Play is for children and dogs. Now that you have identified which category you fall…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful…
— Rick Riordan
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We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others…
— Ernest Becker
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Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still…
— Betty Smith
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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There…
— Rick Riordan
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Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever…
— Graham Chapman
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The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.
— John Green
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The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants,…
— Grant Morrison
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