Top 382 Quotes & Sayings by Romanian Authors

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

If I win, it's nice. But even if I don't win, I will keep smiling.

The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

I never promised you a rose garden.

It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.

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.

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

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

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

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.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

The Universal view melts things into a blur.

We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication.

I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.

I am very normal, and I keep all the things that I have since many years ago.

I do my hair and makeup every day like I'm going to a party.

All children should have equal opportunities.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

I think an eyebrow can change the way you feel. It changes everything about your confidence.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians.

In 1997, I decided to open a salon in Beverly Hills. At that time there were no products for eyebrows, so I developed a line.

It's not easy to serve, because I'm not that tall, but I'm trying to be more consistent and to deliver heavier serves.

If you have fun, if you enjoy life, I think that's the most important thing. And if I have that, and I am No. 1 in the world, looks like everything is good.

My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'

For fragrance, I only wear Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. People at work know I'm there when they smell it.

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

I realized that nobody paid attention to eyebrows. In Romania, it was the norm. I thought, 'This is Hollywood. We work with the most incredible, beautiful models and actors and this is important.'

The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue.

People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

We all have different brow bones, and different amounts of space between the eyebrow and the lashes; the space on the upper lid is bigger or smaller, the space on the bridge of the nose or between the eyes is wider or narrower. Everyone is different.

My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.

People in the beauty community don't like copycats, so I think it's important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.

Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

For sure, I need a coach, because at this level, you cannot do it alone.

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

I saw so many opportunities in the U.S. because I knew that I could make a living doing things I could never do in Romania.

I've always said that winning a Grand Slam title is what is most important.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

I have power inside. I fight.

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.