Nicolae Quotes

#1. She would never admit it to Nicolae, could barely admit it to herself, but she would stay for Mehmed. She would stay for the way she felt when his mouth or eyes were on her. And she would stay for the power it gave her.

Kiersten White

#2. After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

Octavian Paler

#3. I was always a bit of a class clown.

Paula Pell

#4. We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#5. In the search for understanding and awakening we are drawn to those teachings that convey the deepest wisdom with the greatest beauty.

Frances E. Vaughan

#6. Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.

William Devane

#7. I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

Garth Stein

#8. The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#9. Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#10. Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

Jurgen Moltmann

#11. So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,
and put your lips to the world.
And live
your life.

Mary Oliver

#12. My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

Harrison Ford

#13. I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Jean Cocteau

#14. I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Leon Bloy

#15. In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

J. C. Watts

#16. People first become friends, and then they love each other.

Priest Nicolae Tanase

#17. The fetus is the property of the entire society,

Nicolae Ceausescu

#18. Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?

Eugene O'Neill

#19. Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#20. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

Nicolae Ceausescu