Centurion/role

Famous quotes containing the words centurion and/or role:

    When the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent.”
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:47.

    What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)