Quotes by romanian authors

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. Emil Cioran

Democracy Paradise Nation Nothing Once Marvel Offer Tomb

One hardly saves a world without ruling it. Emil Cioran

World Saves Ruling Without Hardly

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. Emil Cioran

You Pride Nothing Revelation Discover Belongs

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? Emil Cioran

Seriously Accident Take Simply Why

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. Emil Cioran

God Nowadays No-One Because Cured Disease Dies Imagine

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. Emil Cioran

Men Torment Some Some Men Accomplishment Appetite Need

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. Emil Cioran

Needs Freedom Overcome Mind Negative Long First Negation Our Once Ourselves Only Habit Exert Fruitful Acquired Us Adapt

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. Emil Cioran

Despair Habit Exist Acquiring

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education. George Emil Palade

Life Education Teacher Great Family Respect Mother Father Books Philosophy Great Respect Scholars Environment Explains Acquired Why Professor Early

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling. George Emil Palade

Experience Darkness Witness Confusion Rare Understanding Field Live Finally Those Only Through Dawn Crumbling Period Sound Scientist His Bloom Endeavour Listen Which While Descend Moments Unique Unique Experience Appeared

Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology. George Emil Palade

History School Few Biology Latin Topic Kind High High School Rather Had Generate Since School Years Names Terms Read Proved Been Years Cell Goes Roman Which Interest Interested Useful

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else. Hedda Sterne

Life Great Word Thought My Life Else One Word Always Were Referred Artists Wanted Anything Anything Else Moment Profession

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. Hedda Sterne

Abstract Nor Expressionist

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper. Henri Coanda

Today Made Paper Airplane More Perfection Toy Than Child

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones. Henri Coanda

I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster. Ion Tiriac

Mercedes Ferrari Porsche

Some players get over-dependable on their coaches. Ion Tiriac

Some Get Coaches Players

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce. Ion Tiriac

Car Never Had

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. Ion Tiriac

Brilliant Shakespeare Tennis Written Am Were Stories Hemingway

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. Ion Tiriac

Me Writing About Tennis Like Baker Baking Bread

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions. Mircea Eliade

Religion Philosophers Those Response Religions Something Am Question Historian Man-Made Human Whether Interested Forms Theologians Expressions

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. Mircea Eliade

Life Death Religion Problem Speak Every Life And Death About Implies Same Same Things Being Different Languages Things Treats

I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on. Nadia Comaneci

Move On Live Move Turn Page Moment