Quotes About Rome Burning

#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. Instead of beseeching men to be reconciled to God, we find ministers wasting their time in giving Sunday lectures about all kinds of subjects. Rome is burning and Nero is playing his fiddle. Souls are perishing and minsters are amusing them.

Todd Friel

#3. When God does not answer your prayers, step back and wait. He is giving you an opportunity to trust Him in the midst of the uncertainty and ambiguity you may be feeling.

Stormie O'martian

#4. I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

Adam McKay

#5. Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle? - the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why, THAT ain't a picture!

Mark Twain

#6. Love is the flow of wind. When it stops, you feel suffocated.

Himanshu Chhabra

#7. And quickly my mom put her arm around my shoulders and spun me back toward the car, walking quickly, and I was like, "Mom, what's wrong?" And she said, "We can't eavesdrop, Hazel.

John Green

#8. The best way to be future-friendly is to be backwards compatible.

Jeremy Keith

#9. Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable. But while that's happening, Rome is burning within the black community.

Jim Brown

#10. The most powerful effects of brain respiration come through supplying enough oxygen to the brain by the effective circulation of ki (energy )and blood

Ilchi Lee

#11. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

Jeffrey Kluger

#12. Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#13. We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.

Joseph Shellim

#14. I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.

Jeffery Deaver

#16. Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

Pearl Cleage

#17. The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.

Milton Berle

#18. Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg C. Lichtenberg