Roman Official Quotes

#1. Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

David Sobel

#2. Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

B.B. King

#3. Because love is the ultimate goal. It's not the one I had strived for, but I was lucky enough, so damn lucky, to achieve it.

Elle Kennedy

#4. The fact is: Jesus wrote not a solitary word that survives. Equally astounding is historical silence: not a single historical account refers to him during his lifetime from any source whatsoever, Roman or Jewish, official or personal.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#5. President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

Conan O'Brien

#6. Live in peace with all people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Dreams have a profound way of waking us up.

Eugene Knight

#8. You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Kin Hubbard

#9. There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.

John Boswell

#10. The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.

Robert Gottlieb

#11. I'm staying here tonight. I can bunk on the floor. (Nathan)
What if I say no? (Terri)
I'll just break in after you go to sleep and still bunk on the floor. (Nathan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. The winds must come from somewhere when they blow ... There must be reasons why the leaves decay.
(From Auden's If I Could Tell You

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. True love is when you relish the orange she eats.

Tapan Ghosh

#14. Good morrow to you, Jessie," Kendrick called. "Jessica," Richard said, giving Kendrick another jerk. "Her name is Jessica!

Lynn Kurland

#15. Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

Karl Shapiro

#16. Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

Elinor Glyn

#17. I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Peter Jennings

#18. Her husband was a patient man, but she had noticed a glazed look on his face as she'd talked, admittedly for quite a long time,

Liane Moriarty

#19. Frank, how did you do that?" Jason yelled.
Frank's head swam with pain. He forced himself not to pass out. "I'm the ranking Roman officer," he said. "They- uh, they don't recognize you. Sorry."
Jason grimaced, but he didn't look particularly surprised. "How can we help?

Rick Riordan