Quotes About Rome

But in the early years, there was the sense that il Duce's ego was a comical thing. He pontificated about the sanctity of family life while openly keeping a young mistress, Claretta Petacci. He bared his chest on the stage while giving a speech at the Pontine Marshes. He stuck out his chin, shouted, boasted, waved his fists, made promises about bringing Italy back to the greatness of ancient Rome.

The first absolutely certain record which places it upon 25 December is the calendar of Philocalus, produced in 354 and apparently at Rome.

Es gibt etwas Wichtigeres als politische Freiheit, und politische Rechte sind ein Mittel, kein Selbstzweck. Ihr Zweck ist Sicherheit für Leben und Eigentum, und diese Sicherheit konnte durch die Verfassung im republikanischen Rom nicht garantiert werden. Das durch Bürgerkriege und Unruhen verbrauchte und gebrochene römische Volk war bereit, das zerstörerische Privileg der Freiheit aufzugeben und sich wie am Anfang der Zeiten einer strengen Regierung unterzuordnen.

Just as all roads lead to Rome, so, too, do we logically arrive at the conclusion that the revisionist proposal to slight the final aim of the Socialist movement is really a recommendation to renounce the Socialist movement itself.

Ebbene signor Meis, il destino di Roma è l'identico. I papi ne avevano fatto – a modo loro, s'intende – un'acquasantiera; noi italiani ne abbiamo fatto, a modo nostro, un portacenere.

Ebbene signor Meis,il destino di Roma è identico.I papi ne avevano fatto a modo loro,s'intende un'acquasantiera;noi italiani ne abbiamo fatto,a modo nostro,un portacenere.D'ogni paese siamo venuti qua a scuotervi la cenere del nostro sigaro,che è poi il simbolo della frivolezza di questa miserrima vita nostra e dell'amaro e velenoso piacere che essa ci da.

Tonino and I went to look at a ruined church with a tree growing inside it. Beautiful. There is a peasant's house beside it. On the way back Tonino showed me a villa, on the outskirts of Rome, which has been abandoned because of ghosts. It looks amazing

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.

It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet, unlike Alexander, whom she rivals as the theme of romance and legend, Cleopatra is known to us through overwhelmingly hostile sources. The reward of the 'good' woman in Rome was likely to be praise in stereotyped phrases; in Athens she won oblivion.

In other words, the most ardent republicans since the fall of Rome were asking their king to help them prevail over the representative legislature of the world's oldest constitutional monarchy, the great symbol and protector of British freedom. From

and because atoms are so small, and are constantly being recycled, every breath you take contains atoms that were once breathed by Julius Caesar and Elvis Presley. So a little bit of you formerly ruled Rome, and sang, "Blue Suede Shoes".

with Paul, with dusty, tired, much-traveled Paul, came Rome's most dangerous opponent—not legions but ideas, not an alternative force but an alternative faith.

The good news, for Luke-Acts, is that the Holy Spirit moved headquarters from Jerusalem to Rome. The Holy Spirit, apparently, did not cross the Euphrates to the north or the Nile to the south but only the Mediterranean to the west. Each of those twin volumes, and one no more or less than the other, is theology rather than history. It is our problem if we wanted journalism. We received gospel instead.

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

is probably as good a single explanation as any for the fall of both Greece and Rome.

You're always sad when you leave Rome," he said at some point. "You're always depressed until you go back.

I stand with Livy, who at the final hardening of Rome's republican arteries, wrote that the study of his land's history was the study of the rise and fall of moral strength, with duty and severity giving way to ambition, avarice, and license, till his fellow Romans "sank lower and lower, and finally began the downward plunge which has brought us to the present time, when we can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

stand with Livy, who at the final hardening of Rome's republican arteries, wrote that the study of his land's history was the study of the rise and fall of moral strength, with duty and severity giving way to ambition, avarice, and license, till his fellow Romans "sank lower and lower, and finally began the downward plunge which has brought us to the present time, when we can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

Romero, para ir a Roma, lo que importa es caminar; a Roma por todas partes, por todas partes se va».

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

Don Pedro Luis de Borja-Pierluigi Borgia to the Italians—was still in his mid-twenties when he became the first member of his family to be the most hated man in Rome. He did so not by behaving badly in any way of which a credible record has survived, but by carrying out an assignment that made him the enemy of some of the most badly behaved Romans of his time.

'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

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.