Fiddling While Rome Quotes

#1. He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

George Orwell

#2. We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

Michael Scheuer

#3. Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

Sakyong Mipham

#4. I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!

Oprah Winfrey

#5. According to Stendhal it takes about a year and a month to fall in love, all being well.

Helen Oyeyemi

#6. Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

Mark McKinnon

#7. I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

James Lee Burke

#8. Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.

Cecelia Ahern

#9. I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

Andrew Dice Clay