
Top 21 Quotes About Roman Emperors
#1. From those pedestals which intersperse the railing of the Sheldonian, the high grim busts of the Roman Emperors stared down at the fair stranger in the equipage. Zuleika returned their stare with but a casual glance. The inanimate had little charm for her.
Max Beerbohm
#2. Gio Parisi was a good-looking man,if your taste ran to dissolute Roman emperors.
Rosie Genova
#3. Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch.
Alistair Cooke
#4. Wicked and cruel boy! I said. You are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver - you are like the Roman emperors!
Charlotte Bronte
#5. Julius Caesar was one of the thirty-four Roman emperors (out of the total of forty-nine that reigned until the division of the empire) who were killed by guards, high officials, or members of their own families.
Steven Pinker
#6. When I was a kid, I was playing in various bands - amateur bands, garage bands, weekend bands, you name it, around the area. At some point, I just wanted to try the whole 'Beatle tribute band' thing, so I found a local band that was doing that.
Steve Landes
#7. The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
Garry Kasparov
#8. After a war of about 40 years, undertaken by the most stupid [Claudius], maintained by the most dissolute [Nero], and terminated by the most timid [Domitian] of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island [of Britain] submitted to the Roman yoke.
Edward Gibbon
#9. And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
K. Eric Drexler
#10. Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
Brian Tracy
#11. You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
#12. [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest.
Martin Schulz
#13. Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.
Sandra Dallas
#14. Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music.
Ken Standley
#15. I think that whether you're married or not, in any relationship, there's always the terror that you're going to screw something up.
John Krasinski
#16. The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war;
Edward Gibbon
#17. Just as the brain has its own way of operating, the ears another, the eyes yet another, and the body, fingers and toes yet another means, our intuition can be further divided into separate skills.
Catherine Carrigan
#18. Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental
that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.
Douglas Coupland
#19. It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.
Homer
#20. War leaves a legacy of human suffering that does not end with peace.
Rodney Barker
#21. Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)
Manny Pacheco
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