Cristina Pascari > Cristina's Quotes

“Banii pot aduce fericire numai acolo unde n-o poate aduce nimic altceva. In afara de anumite inlesniri, banii nu pot oferi bucurii adevarate”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded.”
― Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I don't want to understand anything now. I want to stick to the fact. I made up my mind long time ago. If I try to understand anything, I shall be false to the fact, and I have determined to stick to the fact.”
― Dostoevsky - Karamazov Bothers

“-Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
-Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.”
― Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
― Albert Camus

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.”
― Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect.
- And interest?
-yes, no doubt; it will be the cement between every stone!”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love