Top 1200 Roman Empire Quotes & Sayings - Page 8
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).
When you have the chance to work with Wes Anderson, with Stephen Frears and Chris Weitz and Roman Polanski and Terrance Malick you don't say no.
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.
Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair.
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.
You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.
Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids.
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?
So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'
God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.
There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers
The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.
It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.
I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire.
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.
When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.
I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.
We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.
Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.
I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
I get what I desire, it's my empire
And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire
My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
The mighty Rain
Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.
The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.
If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.
I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.
There is a Mediterranean feel to my colouring. I have olive skin, brown eyes and my nose is definitely Gallic. It's extremely Roman in profile.
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.
'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
