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Just give us until Rome."
The tears escaped.
"Just give us until Rome, Melanie. — T.M. Williams

when you walk the path of revenge, know that someone will always follow your trail — Aziz Hamza

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome. — Bernie Ecclestone

They were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy) — Tobias Jones

Go ahead - walk into the propeller. — Woody Allen

Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now] — Adrian Goldsworthy

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

She had passed her whole life as does everyone, rushing and dreaming in blind, deaf refusal of the miracle of each moment. — Umberto Bartolomeo

I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome. — Hannibal

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section. — George Carlin

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall. — Venerable Bede

They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's. — Katlyn Charlesworth

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral. — Vincent De Paul

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament. — Daniela Hantuchova

The Rome he has been trained to serve, the Rome of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone. In its place stood Neronopolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat. — James Romm

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome — Kanye West

You nearly froze to death out there, you haven't been fed since the fall of Rome, and I'm evil. — Seanan McGuire

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God. — Henry Wotton

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. — George William Curtis

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. — George Eliot

I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. No wonder I like the Italians! — Sandra Cisneros

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor. — Jimmy Hoffa

When in Rome, live in the Roman way. — Ambrose

We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE. — Joseph Shellim

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. — Julius Caesar

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine. — Henry James

It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made. — Neel Burton

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. — Livy

In the centre of our line, eighty paces to my left, I felt Cadus raise his hand; I did not need to look.
'Sound,' he said. That was all. — M.C. Scott

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it. — Martin Luther

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. — Charles Lindbergh

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people. — Arthur Helps

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. — Ben Jonson

The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow. — William Shakespeare

When the pope in Rome heard the news from France, he was so overcome by joy that he organised festive prayers to celebrate — Yuval Noah Harari

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. — Giotto Di Bondone

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy — Edward Gibbon

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames. — George Orwell

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world. — Erin Heatherton

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome. — Robert Briffault

As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. — Venerable Bede

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. — Saint Ambrose

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. — Ambrose Bierce

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. — Taylor Caldwell

Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world. — Venerable Bede

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly. — Ned Rorem

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters — Saul Bellow

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. — William Shakespeare

What appalling tales we shall have to tell of the strange lands we visited; and of those lands, surely none was stranger or more barbaric than Rome! — Steven Saylor

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." — Ambrose Bierce

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it. — Giacomo Casanova

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau

The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength. — Gena Showalter

If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it — Aziz Hamza

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance — Samuel Johnson

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway. — Alastair Reynolds

If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. — John Fowles

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. — John Lennon

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome. — Robert W. Welch Jr.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness ... — Fanny Kemble

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance. — W. Somerset Maugham

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. — Edward Ball

Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related. — Mallory Jansen

In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy. — Dorothy Dunnett

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome. — Les Wexner

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins. — Augusto De Luca

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! — Caligula

Rome wasn't built in one day, just like our relationship didn't happen in the blink of an eye. — Claudia Y. Burgoa

...loafing in the easy chair of one's body. — Umberto Bartolomeo

Of all Rome's seven hills, however, the Palatine was the most exclusive by far. — Tom Holland

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

And when my own Mark Antony
Against young Caesar strove,
And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
The cause was,
all for love. — Robert Southey

there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction — Glenn Cooper

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate. — Franz Grillparzer

I live in Rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. The sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them. — Simon Van Booy

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke

Like an ocean on fire, the red-tiled rooftops of Rome spread out before him, glowing in the scarlet sunset. — Dan Brown

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day. — Margaret Mead

Harder! Harder! Strike at it, for the gods' sake! It's a Parthian, not your grandmother! I swear if you don't put some effort into - What? — M.C. Scott

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome. — Isaac Watts

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb. — Shane Claiborne

New Rome will be destroyed
By the attacks of new vandals.
God always remains silent. — Dejan Stojanovic

The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient Rome. — Sylvain Tesson

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine. — Peggy Noonan

This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins. — Eliza Griswold

The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for. — Mark Viduka

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. — Anthony Trollope

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'. — Fernando Pessoa

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. — Horace

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether. — Alice Meynell

Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror. — Pietros Maneos

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid] — David Wishart

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish. — Robert E. Howard