Top 1200 Roman Empire Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that.

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as '4's'?

We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

You sure you're not a Roman, Annabeth? Or an Amazon?

We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

I can't speak of anything but greatness for Roman Reigns. He's one of the all-time greats.

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

How is the Empire?

The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.

So if you ask those people who say they're standing up to boo Roman Reigns because, 'We don't like him,' 'Okay, would you pay to see Roman Reigns get beat?' 'Oh, absolutely! I'd love to see him get beat.' He's doing his job because people pay to see him.

I really want to face Roman Reigns again.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.

Without the fans, there is no Roman Reigns.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

My mom was Roman Catholic, my dad was part of.

How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.

Empire and liberty.

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

Roman Polanski actually said as much to me once. He had his head in his hands, and I said, "Roman, I've got to tell you, as an actor, seeing the director with his head in his hands... Look, I really want to do what you want me to do." And he went away and he came back, having obviously thought about what I said. And he said, "When my head is in my hands, I'm closing my eyes and trying to remember what I saw in my head, before any of the stuff."

I have a Roman nose. It roams all over my face.

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.

Really, Tanahashi belongs in the WWE. He can be the next Roman Reigns.

Roman Reigns never asked me for my help, that's not who he is.

Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.

In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with a lot of the countries with really difficult, impenetrable nationalist movements - countries that once had a big empire, like Turkey, England, or even in Italy, with the fascists in the middle of the last century. People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

I am a Roman citizen.

Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.

When in Rome, live in the Roman way.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.