#rome

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ↗

— Will Rogers

#ancient #ancient rome #because #both #declined

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#antenna #artist #barometer #because #i

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. ↗

— Tacitus

#atrocious #flock #parts #rome #shameless

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

Everyone gets that second album syndrome. ↗

— Niall Horan

#everyone #gets #second #syndrome

Ancient Rome was a violent place. ↗

— James Purefoy

#ancient rome #place #rome #violent

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. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#been #between #half-way #house #just

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#easy #far #freedom #going #how

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#adulthood #peter-pan-syndrome #age