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rome purpose genius
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed. Charles Caleb Colton
rome cities paris
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. C. Wright Mills
romeo-and-juliet-play
Take it in what sense thou wilt. William Shakespeare
rome london pavement
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven. Bernardo Bertolucci
rome europe curiosity
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Edward Gibbon
rome history evil
Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.
rome years cities
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.
rome america empires
America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. Eddie Izzard
rome history people
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
purple feelings insecurity
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. Alan Watts
purple lunch glasses
At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything. David Sedaris
purple lilies prophet
Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
purple rags doe
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. Charles Dickens
purple cereal milk
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. Bill Watterson
purple pussy groups
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them. Alexei Navalny
purple trying
Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. James Whistler
purple gains grapes
The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.] Juvenal
purple doe strange
purple does something strange to me Charles Bukowski
differentiation happens
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
different directors filmmaker
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. Alan Parker
different film should
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
different stage endure
Love goes through different stages. But it endures. Al Pacino
different
I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same. Chris Burke
different television lines
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. David Selby
different idlers
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. David Mitchell
different language spread
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. David Crystal
different jazz kind
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. David Sanborn