Quotes about rome
rome two church
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. Ambrose Bierce
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 world today
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. Arthur Erickson
rome motto worst
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. Anthony Trollope
rome lessons matter
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
rome lows accommodate
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
rome may all-things
All things may be bought in Rome with money. Juvenal
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Everything in Rome has its price.
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.
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
romeo-and-juliet-love honey appetite
The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
rome house half
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism. Benjamin Tucker
rome years play
It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that. Carlos Moya
rome long greek
In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast. Isaac Newton
rome fossils causes
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome. Stephen Jay Gould
rome noise wealth
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. Horace
rome hands cities
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. Jeffrey Eugenides
rome orthodoxy bishops
Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy. Godfried Danneels
rome done problem
The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.
rome astonishment
Rome is an astonishment! Harriet Beecher Stowe
rome political actors
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled. Gore Vidal
rome style renaissance
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. Giambattista Valli
rome hbo wish
'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it. George R. R. Martin
rome special coliseum
In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section. George Carlin
rome built
Rome wasn't built in A.D. Flann O'Brien
rome literature done
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. Flannery O'Connor
rome acting lessons
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before. Caterina Murino