Traditional Romanian Quotes & Sayings

I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience. — Barbara Kingsolver

We are a tool-making species, but we are not ourselves tools. We have our own ends - in fact, we are ends. — Damon Young

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change — Vince Cable

The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach. — Pete Egoscue

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves. — Gustave Flaubert

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night. — Thomm Quackenbush

Reckon your weakness as praise of God's power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace. — William Stringfellow

I'm not good at casual sex," I said in a breath. "I never said it would be casual. — Pepper Winters

Soldiers don't complain ... I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human - human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human. — Laura Riding

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly. — Courtney Summers