Trecutul Romaniei Quotes & Sayings

Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love. — Henry Ward Beecher

Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent. — Rose Pastor Stokes

Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, "You're not allowed to do what you're doing! And if you don't stop it right now, we are going to ask you to order yourself to be nice! And if that doesn't work, we are going to try to elect a new car-jacker, who we hope will tell himself not to steal our cars! ... But at least we're not like those silly utopian anarchist kooks out there who refuse to work within the system for change! Those crazy people say there should be NO car-jackers at all! — Larken Rose

Pliny ... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed. — George Henry Lewes

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again. — Ralph Stanley

You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don't think there's a right or a wrong; I think there's an "it works" or "it doesn't work" for the whole. And that's why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions. — Susan Sarandon

If it happened, it happened. Why should it have to mean anything? — Yann Martel

We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return.
And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil. — Diana Gabaldon

And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring, as token
That I am happy now! — Edgar Allan Poe

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. — Winston Churchill

If you lend someone 20 dollars and never see that person again, it's probably worth it. — Sam Ewing