Roman Gladiator Sayings

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

Missy Lyons

#2. Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.

Roberto Bolano

#3. Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

Sid Waddell

#4. Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

Henna Inam

#5. The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

Archibald MacLeish

#6. I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

Gena Showalter

#7. Lonely you linger in a league above poetry.

Mie Hansson

#8. He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.

Fulton J. Sheen

#9. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#10. The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

Christopher Fowler

#11. A kiss is like a fight, with mouths.

Kristen Schaal

#12. All that matters in life is that you are happy with where you are, what you are, and with whom you are. Everything around you will be happy and smile with you. If that isn't success, then what is?

Debasish Mridha

#13. The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

Auguste Rodin

#14. Pancakes taste best consumed in periods of sloth on protracted weekend mornings.

Ken Albala

#15. A gladiator only gets to use a real sword when he fights in the arena, since no Roman worth his salt trusts a gladiator with a real sword in the ludus. You have that ungrateful wretch Spartacus to thank for that.

Simon Scarrow

#16. The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.

Robert Dallek

#17. Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Robert Henri

#18. Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

Samuel Johnson

#19. Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.

Laurie Garrett