Deified Roman Quotes & Sayings

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. — Eric Hoffer

New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex! — Dana Gould

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. — Jim Butcher

I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire. — David Ginola

Dude, if you stare at me any longer you'll end up as a twisted character in my wife's next novel. — Mantissa Etherbright

I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a fucking thing, and then they moan about it. — Haruki Murakami

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them. — Marie Dressler

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did. — Dolores Hitchens

We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them. — Josei Toda

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that is one of the symptoms of a dying culture. In ancient Rome, as the republic disintegrated and the Caesars were deified, as the Roman Senate became little more than an echo chamber of the emperor, the population's attention was diverted by a series of frontier wars and violent and elaborate spectacles in the arena. The excitement of entertainment consumed ancient Rome's emotional and intellectual life. It poisoned civic and political discourse. Social critics no longer had a form in which to speak. They were answered with ridicule and rage. It was not prerogative of the citizen to think. — Chris Hedges

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person. — Michael Scott

Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama. — Rick Santorum

I stood beside the U-Haul, and I just watched her. I stared at her while she looked on with the saddest look in her eyes. I wanted to know what she was thinking about, what was going on in her head. What had mad her so sad? I wanted to hug her so bad. When she finally got out of the U-Haul and I introduced myself to her, it took all I had to let go of her hand. I wanted to hold on to it forever. I wanted to let her know that she wasn't alone. Whatever burden it was that she was carrying around, I wanted to carry it for her. I wish I could, Lake. I wish I could take it all away. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. It doesn't just go away. — Colleen Hoover

In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect. — Chris Martin

For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape. — Joseph Conrad