Ghitescu Vicentiu Quotes & Sayings

It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see. — Patricia Hampl

As Pope Benedict XVI said in his address to the United Nations in April 2008, the language of rights is borrowed from the great Christian tradition, but if you cut off those Christian roots, you get all kinds of abuses, each claiming the postmodern high ground of victimhood but only succeeding in debasing the coinage of rights itself. — N. T. Wright

Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other big, important things. Be an effective imperfectionist. Solutions that broadly work well (e.g., how people should contact each other in the event of crises) are generally better than highly specialized solutions (e.g., how each person should contact each other in the event of every conceivable crisis). — Ray Dalio

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber. — William Mather Lewis

As our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward with enthusiasm.
'You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man.' She narrowed her eyes and shivered. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century. — Daniel Libeskind

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power. — Sergei Udaltsov

He had tears in his eyes even as he told her not to cry. — Kamila Shamsie

Hockey is a violent sport that rewards angry men and boys. Ringette is an unsolved feminine mystery. — Carrie Snyder

No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse. — H.L. Mencken

I should be mad. I should hate her. I should judge her. But there is some madness in love. — Jackson Pearce

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that. — Ben Horowitz

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength. — Henry Ward Beecher

He was attempting to prove to himself and God that he was indeed the new creation the Bible said he was. — Kristi Ann Hunter