Rome Quotes - Page 15

• I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

  Owen Wilson

  Six Months, Five, Months

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri, Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dark, Thinking, Past

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• Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Gun, Eight, Years

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• Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Firsts, Popularity

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 17, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

  Samuel Johnson

  School, Boys, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.473

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• Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him... but here we are.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Giving, Bishops

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• Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Christian, Cutting, Way

  Augusto Pinochet's speech, November 10, 1995.

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• You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
  but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
  A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
  but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

  Muhammad Ali

  Home, Fighting, Night

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• We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Victory, Triumph, Culture

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• This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a 'Calvary conspiracy' between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• What i would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the Job. So, i would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If i feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.

  Indra Nooyi

  Jobs, Everyday, Sari

  "Personal side of Indra Nooyi". Interview with Nandan Nilekani, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 7, 2007.

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• We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of Rome or the Archbishop of Canterbury or a religious leader who teaches moral law and values can be charged with the errant behavior of a parishioner or congregant who may violate their moral teachings. That is on the individual.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Religious, Teaching, Law

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part.

  Pope Francis

  Fighting, Agreement, Soldier

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'

  Pope Francis

  Church, Pope, Said

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• [Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.

  Pope Francis

  Son, People, Catholic

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.

  John Bolton

  Real, War, Taken

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Italian, Men

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. September 1987.

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• It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty long track record. More likely we may reach a point where each one of us is a typographer with our own custom proprietary typeface.

  Michael Bierut

  Long, Track, Age

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Teaching, Errors

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.72, Pearson Education

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• There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

  Connie Francis

  Boston, Cities, Causes

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• If you’re looking for hope and change, you’ll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It’s the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life.

  Mary Matalin

  Forever, Kind, Offers

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• Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.

  Charles Chiniquy

  Powerful, Enemy, Church

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• ...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Mistake, Eye, Men

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• The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Thinking, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1058, Simon and Schuster

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• Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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