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Tag Name "Rome" (308)

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Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!
H. P. Lovecraft
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Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.
Erin Heatherton
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Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
Pierre Corneille
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Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.
Fanny Kemble
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Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
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Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.
Godfried Danneels
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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
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Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.
Emi Fontana
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
Will Durant
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Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
Simone Weil
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Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
Thomas Huxley
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Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.
Chris Johnson
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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
Anatole Broyard
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Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.
Jimmy Hoffa
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Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
Louisa May Alcott
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Rome was not built in one day.
John Heywood
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Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.
Alice Meynell
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Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!
Pierre Corneille
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Rome is an astonishment!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Richard Meier
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Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Giotto di Bondone
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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
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Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
Graham Joyce
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