Soldati Romani Quotes & Sayings

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. — Peter S. Beagle

I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass. — Eva Hoffman

The terms that Sforza Cesarini offered Rossini, 400 Roman Scudi, were not ungenerous, though it must have been galling for Rossini to see the Figaro, Luigi Zamboni, getting almost twice as much, and the Almaviva, Manuel Garcia, being offered three times the amount. Of the first-night cast, only the 'altro buffo', Bartolomeo Botticelli, who played Bartolo, and the 'seconda donna', Elisabetta Lowselet, who played Berta, were paid less than the composer. — Richard Osborne

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Of all sports, football seems to be the most sanctioned homosocial opportunity for straight men to be with each other, pat butts, struggle, strive, and take showers together. All that talk of tight ends and penetration. The reason there are face masks on those helmets is so that can't kiss each other. — Kate Clinton

Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward. — Aubrey Malphurs

I think we as celebrities have a lot more control. — Annette Bening

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? — Miep Gies

Discover your sacred soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers. — Desmond Morris

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football. — Johnny Giles

If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives. — Betsy Landin

A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle. — Rumi

Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto 'Live and let live. — Eleanor Scott