Teritoriul Romaniei Quotes & Sayings

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. — Harold S. Geneen

Life is always like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. So, be everlastingly grateful for those rare two seconds and appreciate; appreciate what good you can find, no matter what the cost. — V.C. Andrews

Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album ( ... ) Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days. ( ... ) (A)s always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read. — Peter Bradshaw

Who knows Bob's name in this outfit - let alone his lame child's? ("The last place I worked for, I was let go," recalls the bank teller. "One of my friends stopped by and asked where I was at. They said, 'She's no longer with us.' That's all. I vanished.") It's nothing personal, really. Dickens's people have been replaced by Beckett's. — Studs Terkel

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again — David Clement-Davies

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. — Bertrand Russell

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see? — Nikos Kazantzakis

I like to keep things simple. It's really about the wine, food and the beach view. Nothing can beat that. — Emeril Lagasse

You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."
"There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't. — Cassandra Clare

Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing. — Llewellyn Rockwell

I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip — Groucho Marx

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish. — John Burnside

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects. — Mary Stewart