Romanian Voice - Welcome to RomanianVoice.com! This site offers a cultural insight on Romania, mainly in the visual and literary aspects.
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The Little Vlach Corner - Page dedicated to Vlachs (Aromanians, Macedo-Romanians or Tzantzarii).
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Guide to Romania - Romania Guide to Law Online from the Library of Congress and Global Legal Information Network.
Reconstruction - Romanian-themed documentary film by Irene Lustzig.
Romanothan - A cultural foundation for the support of Rroma [Gypsy] culture in order to monitor and combat social exclusion and racial discrimination. [English/Romanian]
Silent Echoes - Personal page of Adrian Mihai. Contains links and information about the Aromanian culture and the Rroma/Gypsy. Also his documentaries, photographs and travels. [English/Aromanian]
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Culture Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Culture
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Culture You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Culture
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Culture Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Culture
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Culture "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Culture
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Culture "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Culture
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Culture "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Culture
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Culture I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Culture
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Culture The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Culture
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Culture "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Culture
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Culture Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Culture
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Culture The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Culture
