"The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on the rise of Christianity. . . . Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset, as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship of God, and increasingly less worship of idols."

-- Orosius

#Fall Quotes #Past Quotes #Rome Quotes

“You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.”
“Take the limits off of yourself. You will never rise higher than your thinking. Create a great vision for your life.”
“The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.”
“Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (1958). “The Alington inheritance”
“Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.”
“Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.”
“I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.”

Source : Source: www.digitalspy.com
“Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?”

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