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“I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome”

Hands Song Kissing Paris Rome

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.”

Knows World Two Rome Conceited

Book:Sejanus His Fall

Source: Sejanus His Fall

“In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that remain a mystery, the modern preference is for side-footed placement and so the dilemma of goalkeepers has changed from whether to take a guess at dive right or left to if they should dive at all. Or at least that ought to have been their reappraisal. Almunia was feted as the hero in Rome but had he and Doni stayed in the centre of their goal then the number of saves they made in the shoot-out would have been doubled.”

“The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.”

Causes Economics Fortune Ancient Destroyed Inequality Republic Rome Principal

Book:A collection of Essays and fugitive writings on moral, historical, polictical and literary subjects

Source: A collection of Essays and fugitive writings on moral, historical, polictical and literary subjects

“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.”

Knows School Boys Rich Mankind Grew Misery Corruption Tyranny Rome Commonwealth Declamation

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

“Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back.”

“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.”

Knows Giving Ends Seems Earth Gone Brother Duty Evening My Brother Rome Brothers And Sisters Bishops Cardinals Good Evening

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Years Has Beens States Political Lost Liberty Four Citizens Hundred Gun Eight Forty Rome Sparta

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“...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.”

Ifs Men World Should Wells Would Be Eye Age Law Mistake Modern Middle He Man Development Institutions Jew Impulse Conception Rome Suggestions Judaism Modern World Middle Ages Moses

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“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.”

Christ Church Powerful Enemy Modern Stones Forgotten Corners Branches Rome Protestants

Author:Charles Chiniquy

“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.”

Ifs Kind Happens Forever Offers Rome Hope And Change

Author:Mary Matalin

“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.”

Courses Causes Cities Study Rome Take Time Boston Rochester Syracuse

Author:Connie Francis

“I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it.”

People Thinking Stuff Clever Rome Load Overhead Old Stuff

Author:Karl Pilkington

“The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.”

Policy Tricks Fund Rome Foreign Policy Exhausted Monetary Sad Things

Author:Ron Paul

“Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.”

Years Wells Stills States Lasts Darkness Court Affair Rome Peter Bishops Contention Surrogates Satanist St Peter

Author:Malachi Martin

“My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.”

“The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.”

Cities Victory Eternity Holiness Comparison Heavenly Rome Felicity

Book:City of God

Source: City of God

“Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.”

Built Rome Watersheds Syracuse

Author:Shemp Howard

“Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?”

Knows World Years Kind Mean Whole Care Three Cities Periods Fifty Rome Three Years Indifferent Idle Dominion

Book:The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch

Source: The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch

“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.”

Ifs Wife Citizens Rome Nuisance

Author:Augustus

“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.”

Ifs Way Pleasure Wife Plans Citizens Manage Lasting Temporary Rome Preservation Nuisance

Author:Augustus

“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'”

People Mean Speak Loss Path Wonderful Security Blame Ease Expenses Rome More Money Hail Forums Industrious Procession

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.”

Cities Half Modern Century Building Architecture Rome Frozen Idolatry Half A Century Frozen In Time

Author:Richard Meier

“Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.”

World Trying War Facts Film Spirit Interest Cities Taken Humility Drama Conscious Essence Tragedy Victim Determined Screens Tales Dramatic Endeavor Rome Usual Cliche Emerging

Author:Roberto Rossellini

“To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They hated Rome and her device, arma et leges, with an inhuman hatred. True, Rome had leges, laws, like the Jews. But in their very resemblance lay their difference; for the Roman laws were merely the practical application of the arma, the arms...but without the arms, the leges were empty formulae.”

Should Earth Faces Law Differences Arms Empty Hatred Lays Jew Practicals Hated Devices Application Rome Resemblance Inhuman Swept Away Quintessence

Author:Joseph Kastein

“Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.”

Should Reason Wanted Sound Philosopher Jew Accepted Doctrine Reason Why Convince Followers Capture Rome Economist

Author:Thomas Nixon Carver

“Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!”

Next Asks Regret Months Ask Me Rome Chelsea

Author:Alec Stewart

“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.”

Men Self States Facts President United United States Genius Illusion Extraordinary Bitter Posts Rome Cynical Pope Agnostic Reserved Facts Of Life Bandages

Author:H. L. Mencken

“It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome; if you wish to enter that Island, to drive vice out of it, to cause law to be obeyed and St Peter's Pence to be paid by every house, it will please us to assign it to you.”

Ifs Knows Law House Wish Causes Church Please Paid Vices Scary Islands Rome Peter Ireland Doubted St Peter

Author:Pope Adrian IV

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

Men Believe Age I Believe Sex Cities Changed Twenties London Teenager Paris Feminine Rome City Life Dickens Older Women Odessa Demography

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.”

Men May Made Reason Today History Blood Feet Victim Killing Jew Flesh Greek Destroying Rome Belts Destroyers Massacres Ancient Greek Perishing Ancient Civilizations Cyprus Blood And Gore

Author:Cassius Dio

“My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join me in prayer: Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization. . .”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Would that the Roman people had but one neck!”

People Political Politics Necks Rome

Author:Caligula

“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.”

Political Actors Politics Rome Emperor Hiring

Book:The American Presidency

Source: The American Presidency

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

Way Happens Christian Cutting One Way Rome Marxist

Author:Augusto Pinochet

“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.”

Culture Victory Destruction Ancient Socialism Awful Triumph Rome Propositions Imperialism Cemetery Desolation Ancient Rome Degeneration Depopulation

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“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.”

People Should May Said Home Night Fighting Should Have Rome Comeback Sweden

Author:Muhammad Ali

“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?”

“I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.”

Thinking Dream Winning United League Champion Rome Manchester Manchester United Madrid Champions League

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.”

Glory Ruins Civilized Rome Faded Barbarians

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation. He answered: "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." His answer lasted exactly fifteen seconds.”

Want Differences Answers Music Streets Ran Pockets Seconds Rome Tape Fifteen Composition Improvisation Recorders

Author:Frederic Rzewski

“The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.”

Source: The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

“In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.”

Fall Christianity Rome Discussing Barbarism Fall Of Rome

Author:Edward Gibbon

“It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.”

Writing Mind Firsts Ideas Fall Cities Singing Ruins Sat Temples Rome Decline October Capitol Jupiter Musings Friars

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.”

Looks Certain Century Supreme Doctrine Pity Thirty Rome Descendants Illiterate Augustus Alps

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with the aid of Roman gold coins which were accepted and admired everywhere.”

World Lost Periods Gold Trade Ancient Aids Accepted Indian Rome Traveler Coins Prestige Gold Coins Buying Gold

Author:Paul Einzig

“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?”

Men World Ends Like You Civilization Clever Immortal Rome Trusted Civilisation Clever Man Notting Hill

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.”

Men Humans Soul States Spiritual Existence Genius Discovery Rome Human Soul Athens Conjecture Spiritual Nature

Book:Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.”

Force Air Hundred Target Rome Rockets Air Force

Author:Martin Van Creveld

“The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. 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.”

Knows Way Want May Has Beens Said Two States Reason School House Names Half Liberty Principles Movement Authority Socialism Rome Propose Anarchism Half Way

Book:State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays