Romanensis Quotes & Sayings

Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers. — Gary Rohrmayer

oil companies are nationalities. This plane oughta say EXXON on the side instead of U. S. Navy — James W. Blinn

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination. — Meher Baba

I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since. — Steve Jobs

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group. — Bruce Johnston

It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature, which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shews all — Samuel Johnson

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes. — Natasha Josefowitz

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. — Alvin Adams

She sometimes wondered what her twenty-two-year-old self would think of today's Emma Mayhew. Would she consider her self-centered? Compromised? A bourgeois sell-out, with her appetite for home ownership and foreign travel, clothes from Paris and expensive haircuts? Would she find her conventional, with her new surname and hopes for a family life? Maybe, but then the twenty-two-year-old Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all of the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed most. — David Nicholls

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known. — Ralph Waldo Emerson