All Quotes

The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
‐‐ Thomas Mallon

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.
‐‐ Monique Roffey

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
‐‐ Joan Chen

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
‐‐ Laura Marling

The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
‐‐ M. H. Abrams

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.
‐‐ Mark Steyn

The Romney-Ryan plan would replace the guarantee of Medicare with a voucher that wouldn't keep up with costs. Congressman Ryan says that he wants Medicare to be around for his grandkids. Well, if that's the case, he had better vote for Barack Obama!
‐‐ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
‐‐ Dashiell Hammett

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.
‐‐ Bill McKibben

The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
‐‐ Halsey

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
‐‐ Adolf Loos

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
‐‐ Harold Pinter

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.
‐‐ Julianna Margulies

The room is the most important thing about recording.
‐‐ Adrian Smith

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.
‐‐ Pietro Mascagni

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.
‐‐ Tony Dorsett

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
‐‐ Arthur Hertzberg

The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.
‐‐ Lawrence M. Krauss

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.
‐‐ Gene Simmons

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
‐‐ Mencius

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.
‐‐ Vinny Guadagnino

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.
‐‐ Pope Francis

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
‐‐ Compay Segundo

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
‐‐ Aristotle

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
‐‐ George Weinberg

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?
‐‐ Sarah Lacy

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
‐‐ Alan Moore

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
‐‐ Harold Taylor

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their highest potential. I set examples by the way I lead my life.
‐‐ Rosa Parks

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.
‐‐ John McGahern

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
‐‐ Saadi

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
‐‐ Angelus Silesius