Romanesti 2017 Quotes & Sayings

You're not going to die in a rickshaw in Durham. — Kyle Miller

Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life. — Sanober Khan

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty! — Benito Mussolini

He had the eyes of a man that had seen things. Eyes that were soulful and wise, yet vibrant and sultry. Eyes that made me want to run away, yet urged me to stay. — S.L. Jennings

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection. — Jean Cocteau

Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect. — H.W. Brands

BICEP unflexed One of last year's most talked-about scientific results proves to be a mirage — Anonymous

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it. — Sarah Manguso

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life. — W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity. — Timothy Keller

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media. — Bob Beamon

I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is. — Natsuo Kirino