Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

Peter Akinola

Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.

Peggy Noonan

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

Martin Van Creveld

We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.

Michel de Montaigne

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Michael Scheuer

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

Mark Twain

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

Flann O'Brien

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Alan Dershowitz

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

Ariel Sharon

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

Ariel Sharon

Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.

Ariel Sharon

Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.

Ehud Olmert

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

Ehud Olmert

I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

Ehud Olmert

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

Silvan Shalom

Israel is a democracy; everyone can say what they would like to. But they are a very very small minority in Israeli public opinion.

Dan Gillerman

It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.

Arthur Miller

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Arthur Ashe

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

Carl von Clausewitz

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

Jane Austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Arthur C. Clarke

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

Blaise Pascal

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Debra Winger

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Edmund Spenser

Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.

Deepak Chopra

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.