Quotes About Roman Roads

#1. Instead of winding and skirting, Roman roads tend to go straight to the top. The chariots were light and the shortest distance between two points seemed to have governed their surveyors. I've read that some of their roadbeds go down twelve feet.

Frances Mayes

#2. Idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths

Orson Scott Card

#3. Cosmopolitan discourse is in a way a response to the issue of solidarity. Although the precondition for solidarity can be a _community_, solidarity requires more intentional commitment and performance than does community.

Namsoon Kang

#4. Think of the phone on a date as a grenade. As soon as you press a button, your potential relationship is blown to bits.

Anonymous

#5. Taking a shit is always a big production in a war zone.

Evan Wright

#6. The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads ... the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#7. It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

Alexander McQueen

#8. For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

Jon Spaihts

#9. Make doing your best a habit, and you'll never know not doing your best. If you build roads, then build them Roman - make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them to the state fair to win another blue ribbon for best ditches ...

Carew Papritz

#10. A Theory of Technological Evolution

Anonymous

#11. A piece of bad news wrapped in a protein coat.

Nick Lane

#12. Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

#13. I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

Pope Francis