#rome

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#any #believes #clearly #essentially #everything

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. ↗

— Aaron Yoo

#been #doing #dream #else #everyone

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#ancient rome #attendant #back #beings #believe

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#environment #even #fancy #film #i

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

— Daniela Hantuchova

#enjoy #favorite #here #i #most

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. ↗

— David Hare

#else #indicate #like #little #mercury

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#call #disorder #free #free will #had

Rome was not built in one day. ↗

— John Heywood

#day #one day #rome