people-from-rome

"All the lands of the West have their eyes directed toward our humility; by them we are considered as a God upon earth."

"We believe that it has been brought about by a special dispensation of Divine Providence, that the Frankish Princes should profess the orthodox faith; like the Roman Emperors, in order that they may help this city, whence it took its rise. Persuade them with all earnestness to keep from any friendship and alliance with our most unspeakable enemies, the Lombards."

"The amount of vigor, health, and power meted out to the secretary was in just proportion to his need of them. He retained them as long as they were required by him for whose comfort and glory they had been intrusted to him."

"When all shall see me, by fair Fortune's love Pass through the days which Fate unsparing spins On her eternal distaff for my destiny, Joyful, contented with myself; for then Far other shall I be than now I am."

"Both as an organist and composer he ranks high."

"In Messalina, greed for money, ambition for power and bestial lust were combined; so that, in agreement with her freedmen, she shamelessly sold the prefectures of the armies and provinces and the highest offices of the empire, and in brothels, unbeknownst to her husband, she stimulated the most noble and beautiful of both sexes with her own lasciviousness, favouring them if they yielded, extinguishing them if they resisted: all Rome knew, except Claudius."

"From the beginning when something was wrong I've been saying: 'Dilly-ding, dilly-dong, wake up, wake up!' So on Christmas Day I bought for all the players and all the staff a little bell. It was just a joke."

"When night falls, the sovereign, in disguise, goes to the infamous suburbs of Suburra. There, in the most sordid brothels, she offers herself to porters. If her august husband, Emperor Claudius, has taken it into his head to attend a torture session at the same time, the imperial palace of the Caesars will be empty: the emperor is in prison, the empress in the brothel."

"Now we go straight away to try to win the title. We are in the Champions League, dilly ding, dilly dong - come on. We are in the Champions League, it is fantastic, terrific. Well done to everybody."

"(On Jamie Vardy) This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic horse."

"Messalina shows a greed that is matched only by her eroticism and wickedness. She obtains the death sentence for several large landowners on various pretexts, but in reality for the sole purpose of seizing their property."

"The name of Messalina has remained the most reviled attribute of immorality and indecency, of unbridled lust and sordid prostitution. This woman, related to the progeny of the Caesars and married to an emperor, surpassed the sad fame of Augustus' two Julias and brought to the imperial palace, along with the most vile vice, the rage of blood and robbery."

"I could be (too loyal), could be. It is difficult when you achieve something so good, you want to give them one chance, two chances, three chances. Maybe now, it is too much."

"I told them, if you keep a clean sheet, I'll buy pizza for everybody. I think they're waiting for me to offer a hot dog too."

"I pay for pizza, you pay for the sausage. I am the sausageman."

"More than her beauty, she has left in history the memory of her immorality. This is so famous that her name alone, if I may say so, has become a programme in itself. It is true that her immodesty is appalling. Today's doctors would assure us that she is afflicted with the evil they call “nymphomania”, that is to say, an “exacerbation of sexual instincts”."

"I say my team is like the RAF, it's fantastic - whoosh whoosh! - I love it."

"It was important to keep it going until Christmas, as we are in the relegation battle. For this battle I need warriors, and they showed me what I wanted to see"

"Her whole life was a continuous series of faults, and she disgraced herself with the most shameful and discredited excesses. Her prostitution was of the most infamous kind, her disorderliness excessive, and her public debauchery detestable. Those that appealed to her most were bestial pleasures; the most horrible iniquities appeared to her as pleasant images; she regarded virtue with a sinister eye; and her honour was something she never gave a thought to."

"It's fantastic when you see before the match, an old lady with a Leicester shirt outside the stadium. I say: 'Unbelievable. They come from Leicester to support us.' This is my emotion"

"Messalina had received from nature such a violent inclination towards debauchery that it was very difficult for her to confine herself within the legitimate boundaries of marriage, which were too narrow for a heart inflamed by a thousand vices. She was quite beautiful and had enough credit to attract lovers, and too little virtue to keep them waiting for long."

"Ancient Christian documents strikingly confirm both the dogmas of the Catholic Faith and ancient ecclesiastical traditions. The study of Archaeology should therefore be considered as an auxiliary to the study of Theology and of sacred history."

"Knowing the author personally and admiring his qualities of mind and heart; his sound learning, his rare powers of exposition as a teacher, his priestly zeal and earnestness, I feel confident that his book will be helpful to many souls in this country."

"We should be apostles of good with at least the same zeal and interest with which the wicked propagate evil. For every effort, for every sacrifice, which we make for the Children of Christ as yet outside the Church of Christ, we shall receive a hundred-fold return."

"I make films that people call ‘horror’ because I want to make films about real things that happen in the world. And most real things aren’t very nice."

"Indians have excellent eyes and ears; and our band, if weak in numbers, was certainly strong in lungs; for such as had wind instruments spared neither contortions of the face, nor exertions of their organs of respiration to give volume to the music."

"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."

"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"

"If this same balance, even though corporeal, were considered to be not on the earth's surface but in the highest regions beyond the sun's sphere, then the threads, while still drawn to the centre of the earth, would be very much less convergent to each other, would be quasi-parallel. Let us imagine a mechanical balance transported beyond the starry balance [i.e., the constellation of that name] in the firmament, to an infinite distance. It will be understood by everybody that the suspension threads would no longer be convergent, but would be exactly parallel. ... The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions [operationes] by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?"

"Sola enim Geometria inter liberales disciplinar acriter exacuit ingenium, idoncumque reddit ad civitates exornandas in pace et in bello defendendas: caeteris enim paribus, ingenium quod exercitatum sit in Geometrica palestra, peculiare quoddam, et virile robur habere solet: praestabitque semper, et antecellet, circa studia architecturae, rei bellicae, nauticaeque, etc."

"Among these [coubcils], I wish above all to follow and imitate the one whom we know to have been the author of the Council of Chalcedon, and who, in accordance with his name, clearly showed himself to be a member of that lion [Pope Leo I] who came forth from the tribe of Judah, with his lively solicitude and faith."

"Because Satan knows that he seduced the first man through a woman and led all human beings away from the bliss of paradise thanks to the credulity of women, he continues to pursue your sex with even greater cunning."

"Saint Leo the Great (like other Fathers of the Church) goes so far as to call the two holy Apostles, with a wonderful image, the eyes of the mystical body, of which Christ is the head (Serm. LXXXII, chap. 7 – Migne, P. L., t. 54, col. 427). Bright and splendid eyes, paternal and merciful eyes, kind and watchful eyes, eyes that follow our spiritual journey, eyes that look down to encourage and animate, and up to intercede and implore grace for those who are still weary from the dangerous and harsh storm of life."

"Leo I approached the Vandal [Genseric] with the same composure and majesty with which he had approached Attila a few years earlier. His mediation was not as successful, but once again he managed to avoid the worst."

"Renzi is a very polite, decent and intelligent person. The fact that he is so controversial? Doing things inevitably creates problems. Renzi would have wanted to do right by the many but the few who would lose out convinced the many that it would be a problem for them too. That said, there are other good politicians in Italy. Generally they are the ones who have a more difficult life."

"Ciao Darwin is not vulgar: it is grotesque and there is a subtle difference. Many did not understand it, others did not want to understand it. The exaggeration of tone, the exhibitionism, are grotesque condemnations to which humanity is subjected. Trying to exorcise it, we show the reality: this is the world, even if we do not want to see it. A laugh will bury us."

"If this Thohir comes from Indonesia with a tale of 13 billion a year turnover, he must have some money. Either he's lying, or he has it."

"[On homogenitoriality] Sometimes I ask myself questions too. Here we are talking about love towards children, who have a right to love. That can come from a man and a woman, of course, but I ask myself: why can't that love come from two men or two women and instead be given by seven nuns? This is a question I ask myself. Why not? Why not?"

"In interviews I like to take not one but several steps backwards. I like TV that asks the questions and listens to the answers. Too often those asking questions are too complacent and don't listen to the interviewer."

"Today it is very difficult to fly, we began to live with difficulty when we started to ask ourselves not what is right or wrong, but what is convenient. Reasoning by expediency has brought out the Italian soul, which is neither Hector nor Achilles, but Ulysses: expediency is being cunning, looking for the Trojan Horse, wanting to be smarter than others."

"I have five children, I like children. Maybe that means I also like wives."

"Ciao Darwin is from the outset stated to be what it is, namely a carnival of the soul and a mirror that appears deforming but is in fact straightening with respect to a deformed reality."

"Francesco has God-blessed feet but is a little lazy in the ball-retrieval phase."

"The year of Serie B can be considered the year of the issue of Italiani (2001), a programme that went particularly badly; not only because of the writing of the programme, and for demanding live coverage, but above all because that year Giorgio Panarielllo went on air with a wonderful show Torno Sabato, which literally tore us to pieces.[7]"

"At university I studied, instead, criminal law which is why I can speak with full rights about Juventus."

"Ciao Darwin shows the prodromes of the apocalypse. We don't show monsters, that humanity exists: it is the neighbour."

"Everyone who sells you a complete kit on the meaning of life is cheating you. I calmly ignore those who advocate incontrovertible truths. Standing on an exclamation mark is easy. I'm on the question mark: it's more basculating."

"Interviewer: Has TV, a certain kind of TV, corrupted the country?'Bonolis: Yes. The difference is when there is a lack of irony, when I don't say that I am showing a circus and mocking our everyday life. This applies more to information than to variety shows. It is very dangerous when information disguises itself as entertainment."

"Let's say that if once the "Juve style" was synonymous with elegance, now it tends more towards the casual."

"[On homogenitoriality]... with respect to love, affective availability belongs equally to different behavioural genders. What does it matter whether it is two men with a child, or a man and a woman, or two women? I do not know who is able to decide how it is right to love."