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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
Camille Paglia
Great
Nature
Spiritual
Atheist
Recognize
Only
Although
Catholicism
Roman
Which
Grandeur
Richness
Who
Believes
Raised
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon
Desperation
Would
Purgatory
Rather
Catholic
Sheer
Because
Go
Were
Than
Heaven
Roman
Roman Catholic
Turn
Should
Heretic
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.
Colm Toibin
Life
Matter
Church
Parents
Else
Would
Religious
Seemed
More
Small
Rituals
No-One
Part
Catholic
Catholic Church
Although
None
Dogma
Were
Question
Questioned
Than
Often
Roman
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
Anyone
Anyone Else
Us
Much
Belief
Ever
Basic
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Dan Quisenberry
Me
Cause
Fall
Roman Empire
Sense
Ought
Security
Able
Empire
Ball
False
False Sense
Get
Pitch
Roman
Them
Ground
Lull
Watching
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Dan Quisenberry
Cause
Fall
Roman Empire
Ought
Able
Empire
Ball
Get
Roman
Ground
I wasn't 'gifted' in the way that Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns or somebody like that is gifted, in that they got the physical attributes and so forth.
Dean Ambrose
Somebody
Way
Gifted
Physical
Like
Attributes
Got
Roman
Forth
Reigns
I feel that I am better than Roman Reigns, but you know what? He hasn't wrestled as long as I have.
Dolph Ziggler
You
Better
Long
He
Feel
Know
Am
Than
Roman
Reigns
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan
Ignorance
World
Confusion
Past
Roman Empire
About
Between
Empire
Concept
Reveal
America
Current
Any
Roman
Anything
In The Past
Place
Meaning
Meaning Of
Reasonable
Comparison
Comparisons
Imagine you put Brock Lesnar/Samoa Joe and Roman Reigns/John Cena on WrestleMania. Sold.
Edge
You
Sold
Joe
WrestleMania
Put
Roman
Imagine
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
Edmond About
Men
Country
Every
States
Collected
Examined
Studied
Part
Over
Spot
Opinions
Question
Very
Closely
Roman
Information
Traveled
Things
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.
Edward Everett
Atoms
Roman Empire
Society
Resolved
Mutual
Only
Hostile
Empire
Said
Italy
Up
Roman
Movement
Breaking
Breaking Up
Repulsion
Might
Original
Elements
Whose
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.
Elaine Pagels
Politics
Religion
Relationship
Book
Follower
Reflect
Roman Empire
Thinking
Way
Hated
About
Prophet
Could
Written
Empire
Also
Got
Revelation
Issue
Roman
Realized
Who
Jesus
Jewish
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
Army
Jews
Rule
Destroy
Total
Devastation
Were
Camp
Trying
Did
Roman
Romans
Turned
Jerusalem
Resistance
Jewish
Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.
Ellen Page
You
Comedy
Mind
Think
Films
Favorite
Favorite Films
Kind
Absolutely
Audrey
Audrey Hepburn
Roman
Movie
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Which
Holiday
Hepburn
Phenomenal
The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.
Elvis Mitchell
Freedom
Fight
Made
Back
Sold
Soldier
Way
Must
Would
Imminent
Someone
Gladiator
League
Proud
Were
His
His Way
Commercial
Roman
Movie
Happen
Story
Shot
Who
Slavery
Chanel
I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
Felicity Jones
Work
Love
Think
Williams
Anderson
Atmospheric
Something
Excellent
She
Arnold
Always
Michelle
Roman
Creates
Her
Coppola
Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
Francesca Annis
Strong
Wife
Year
Before
Ghetto
Charles
Through
Had
He
Sharon
Leaving
Private
Been
Very
Tate
Roman
Much
Manson
Warsaw
I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
Francesco Totti
City
Born
Never
Leave
Die
Roman
Team
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Faith
Home
Strong
Nominal
Catholic
Without
Any
Roman
Roman Catholic
Really
Raised
In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.
Gene Luen Yang
Time
Home
Church
First
Incredibly
Way
Citizens
John
John Paul
Excited
Catholic
Catholic Church
Because
First Time
Saints
Were
Roman
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
Acknowledged
China
Chinese
Paul
Pope
Pope John Paul II
Whom
Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.
George Emil Palade
History
School
Few
Biology
Latin
Topic
Kind
High
High School
Rather
Had
Generate
Since
School Years
Names
Terms
Read
Proved
Been
Years
Cell
Goes
Roman
Which
Interest
Interested
Useful
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.
Geraldine Brooks
Man
Simple
Word
Say
Signature
Andy
Shaking
Write
Head
His
Chief
Roman
Cap
Room
Working
English
I have a Roman nose. It roams all over my face.
Gerry Cooney
Face
Over
Roman
Nose
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
Goldwin Smith
Strength
Discipline
Citizen
Made
First
Submission
Submit
Soldiers
Rigid
Lay
Had
Instance
Feel
Were
Been
Roman
Formed
Who
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.
Grant Morrison
First
Other
Some
Myths
Always
Got
Spreading
Up
Roman
Celtic
Interested
Then
Growing
Growing Up
Started
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Time
Old
Innocent
First
Guards
Several
Spent
Temple
Trip
More
Through
Hours
Years
Roman
After
Avoiding
Forum
Europe
Saturn
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