Fall Of The Roman Empire Quotes

#1. Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

Edward Gibbon

#2. No doubt this works well enough for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I can readily see that 'The Selfish Gene' on its own, without the large footnote of the book itself, might give an inadequate impression of its contents.

Richard Dawkins

#3. I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

Victoria Aveyard

#4. We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

Terence McKenna

#5. We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

Romano Prodi

#6. The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

James Buchan

#7. Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

Peter Greenaway

#8. My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Joseph Barbera

#9. In retrospect, the highlight of dating him had been free coffee and a particularly compelling discussion on the fall of the Roman Empire.

Richelle Mead

#10. I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

Beatrice Lillie

#11. I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#12. I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Cary Fukunaga

#13. Sounding throaty like a dog before it barfed, he said, Put her in the chair.

Judy Byington

#14. You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons, Lesley had said when I explained my reasoning. I'd been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I've learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse.

Ben Aaronovitch

#15. I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Karel Capek

#16. In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.

Paolo Giordano

#17. If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Dan Quisenberry

#18. Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you; life is a wave of love so let it flow over you endlessly.

Debasish Mridha

#19. The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that's old people's hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that's what you've got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.

David LaChapelle

#20. fluidity of the sea, not the rigidity of irresistible law, characterizes human conduct, especially in the midst of a calamity.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#21. I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!-Iggy

James Patterson

#22. Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.

Jakob Bohme

#23. Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

Rob Lowe

#24. I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.

Constance Jablonski

#25. The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

Eric Hoffer

#26. God's purpose is not limited by your past.

Rick Warren