#rome

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#holds #holiday #i #like #psyche

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: “They’re wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank #jackson #jupiter #neptune #percy

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#even #go #holy #islamic #like

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#art #athens #city #conquest #dwells

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#constant #cults #go #history #into

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. ↗

— Emma Watson

#almost #dating #had #how #i

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american republic #bound #centuries #come #course

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. ↗

— George Will

#affairs #american #american media #fine #his

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#barometer #better #getting #getting better #winning

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#any #believes #clearly #essentially #everything