Resita - Resita, one of the most important industrial centers in south-eastern Europe, and the oldest steel producer in Romania. Located in the south-west of the country, the city is first time attested in the 15th century...
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Resita To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Resita
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Resita The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Resita
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Resita "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Resita
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Resita You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Resita
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Resita Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Resita
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Resita The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Resita
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Resita I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Resita
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Resita What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Resita
My other wife is beautiful. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Resita "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Resita
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Resita Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Resita
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Resita Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Resita
