Ileana Vulpescu Quotes & Sayings

A prompt refusal is sometimes no slight refusal. — Publilius Syrus

This great world of ours is the looking-glass in which we must gaze to come to know ourselves from the right slant. Michel de Montaigne — Patti Miller

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others. — H. Rap Brown

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. — Branch Rickey

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion. — Dylan Thomas

The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. — Tim Wise

You think I started out like this?
Well, I didn't.
I started out like anyone else - young and hopeful. I started out arrogant and in love, assuming the whole dizzy world was where it should be: at my feet. I started out - well, I started out a little like you. — Gail Levy

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris. — Thomas Noon Talfourd

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. — Richard Bach

It is better to engaged you mind on positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me. — Mads Mikkelsen

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons — Kahlil Gibran

A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one's existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane. — Thomm Quackenbush

Music saved my life and Music saves me still. — Alice Herz-Sommer