Quotes About Trajan

#1. The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#2. Can I have a final request in case I don't make it?"
"Anything."
"I haven't been kissed in five years, kiss me Trajan," she whispered. "I am so afraid." Trajan slowly pushed his glasses onto the top of his head and brought his lips softly to hers.

Amy Kuivalainen

#3. We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

Louis XVI Of France

#4. I don't naturally look like this. I have to feed in order to have the power to hold it."
"Feed on what exactly?" Please don't say blood, please don't say blood, she whispered in her mind.
"Death," Trajan answered. Anya didn't know if that was better or worse.

Amy Kuivalainen

#5. Over the years I've noticed that only men use this phrase - "unlucky in love" - in reference exclusively to unmarried women, as if they can't possibly comprehend that contentment or even happiness is possible without the centrality of a man.

Kate Bolick

#6. A lover? Maybe. Something tender, anyway. But tender like a bruise.

Marie Rutkoski

#7. It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

Richard Wright

#8. A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

Marie Rutkoski

#9. There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.

Ronald D. Moore

#10. Let the morning keep what belongs to the morning,

Marie Rutkoski

#11. The guard hit Kestrel across the face. "I said, what did you give him?"
You had a warrior's heart, even then.
Kestrel spat blood. "Nothing," she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought of Arin. She told her final lie. "I gave him nothing.

Marie Rutkoski

#12. Innocent? Her? Never.

Marie Rutkoski

#13. My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

Lord Byron

#14. There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

Zooey Deschanel

#15. Given that she barely saw her father, given that she continued to measure out her contact with him, whether to deny herself or to deny him, she could not be sure.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#16. He said, "How can the inconsequence of your life not shame you?"
He said, "How do you not feel empty?"
I do, she thought as she pushed through the library doors and let them thud behind her. I do.

Marie Rutkoski

#17. Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

Sylvester Stallone

#18. She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.

Gautama Buddha

#19. I am not a model the camera just went off by itself

Godfrey

#20. When she saw the opportunity to flee, she would take it. She would bring the hounds of the empire howling down on this city.

Marie Rutkoski

#21. She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin's voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?
The powder was so fine that she inhaled its sweetness, but always woke before she could taste.

Marie Rutkoski

#22. Ultimately, when he held your treasonous letter in his hand and saw how you had lied to him, the choice between me and you was the choice between someone who loves him and someone who didn't.

Marie Rutkoski