Rom9m Quotes & Sayings

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite. — Robert Browning

Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose. — Adrian Goldsworthy

Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay"
Why two?" asked Mo hoarsely. "How can you ask for two lives in return for one? — Cornelia Funke

I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time — Gabrielle Zevin

This is the crux of Christianity: to remember and give thanks, 'eucharisteo'. — Ann Voskamp

If he had any compassion for me' cried her husband impatiently 'he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners. Oh! that he sprained his ankle in the first dance! — Jane Austen

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' — Frank Gaffney

When one looks back across a chasm of seventy years, through a prism of pulp fiction and bad gangster movies, there is a tendency to view the events of 1933-34 as mythic, as folkloric. To the generations of Americans raised since World War II, the identities of criminals such as Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, "Ma" Barker, John Dillinger, and Clyde Barrow are no more real than are Luke Skywalker or Indiana Jones. After decades spent in the washing machine of popular culture, their stories have been bled of all reality, to an extent that few Americans today know who these people actually were, much less that they all rose to national prominence at the same time. — Bryan Burrough

Canada is a long way to go to get Cuban Cigars" Captain Hank Bracker — Hank Bracker

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. — Michael Landon