Quotes About Roman Gladiators

#1. His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#2. I was barely five-feet and had a hard time finding shoes that fit, because my feet were so small.

Kristie K. Shafer

#3. There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

Stephen Fry

#4. Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.

Tom King

#5. I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

Patrick Ewing

#6. Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

Jerry Seinfeld

#7. I have yet to discover a source of information, practical advice, and hope that compares to the wisdom found in the Bible.

Billy Graham

#8. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

#9. The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari].

Dada Bhagwan

#10. You can't walk around here half naked in Roman warrior costumes or every woman in a fifty-mile radius will be on you like flies on honey.

Missy Lyons

#11. There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

Condoleezza Rice

#12. I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

Tom Shales

#14. This is a writer's lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

John Irving

#15. This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.

Sarah Ockler

#16. For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.

Chris Hemsworth

#17. HELL Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart. MS-74

Kahlil Gibran

#18. Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Walter Bagehot

#19. Two blue men the size of football players walking through a store wrapped in Roman gladiator armor was bound to attract attention.

Missy Lyons

#20. The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

Paulo Coelho