Rumelians Quotes & Sayings

Listen until you're the smartest.
Learn until you're the wisest.
Live until you're the merriest.
Love until you're the kindest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Tell me about the farm," she pleaded as drops of blood began to appear on her hand.
"The farm?"
"The farm that Finnikin the peasant would have lived on with his bride."
"Evanjalin. That was her name. Did I mention that?"
She laughed through a sob. "No, you didn't."
"They would plant rows upon rows of wheat and barley, and each night they would sit under the stars to admire what they owned. Oh, and they would argue. She believes the money made would be better spent on a horse, and he believes they need a new barn. But then later they would forget all their anger and he would hold her fiercely and never let her go."
"And he'd place marigolds in her hair?" she asked.
He clasped her hands against his and watched her blood seep through the lines of his skin. "And he would love her until the day he died," he said. — Melina Marchetta

For she was really too lovely
too formidably lovely. I was used by now to mere unadjectived loveliness, the kind that youth and spirits hang like a rosy veil over commonplace features, an average outline and a pointless merriment. But this was something calculated, accomplished, finished
and just a little worn. It frightened me with my first glimpse of the infinity of beauty and the multiplicity of her pit-falls. What! There were women who need not fear crow's-feet, were more beautiful for being pale, could let a silver hair or two show among the dark, and their eyes brood inwardly while they smiled and chatted? but then no young man was safe for a moment! But then the world I had hitherto known had been only a warm pink nursery, while this new one was a place of darkness, perils and enchantments ... — Edith Wharton

The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them. — Stephen Fry

The bay was bright blue today, the hard fierce blue of a gas flame. If there was fog rolling in - and there must be, given the insistence of those horns - she couldn't see it from here. — Armistead Maupin

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age. — G.K. Chesterton

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken. — Susan Vaught

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result ... Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not. — Dalai Lama

Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation. — Jeffrey Lang

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be. — Scott Hamilton

A stranger visiting a new town would first face the question, Are you from Anatolia or Rumelia? Ottoman popular culture attributed sophisticated characteristics to the Rumelians, such as wisdom, charm, and gentlemanly behavior. Anatolians, by contrast, were stereotyped as courageous, honest, and straightforward. — M. Sukru Hanioglu

I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce. — William Golding

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction. — Oscar Wilde

I had many mentors, and they didn't know it. — Maggie Wilderotter