Quotes by Rome Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. Goldwin Smith rome government law What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome, is the latter's fullness of knowledge of God's Word. To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred. Gordon Clark rome echoes age '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 hbo wish Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? Gilbert K. Chesterton rome clever men In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. George Eliot rome wanted world If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience. Graciela Iturbide different-experiences rome connections Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. Graham Joyce rome weight cities 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 political actors I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy. Gore Vidal rome europe america If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. Gwyneth Paltrow rome would-be thinking I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome. Hannibal aids rome war I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome. Hannibal rome destiny fire My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him. Hannibal Buress barca rome dad Rome is an astonishment! Harriet Beecher Stowe astonishment rome Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Gilbert K. Chesterton rome men A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. H. L. Mencken rome self men Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. Henry Fuseli rome egypt art The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction. Henry Adams rome history years Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire. Henry David Thoreau rome soul beauty Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God. Henry Wotton rome church thinking «4567891011121314»