Nadia Comaneci Quotes

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

Nadia Comaneci

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• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Revolution
  • Theory
  • Blind

• Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Matter

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Awareness
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Picture
  • Biography
  • Elizabeth I

• I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Simple

• Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Law
  • Moral
  • Ethics

• It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Military
  • Democratic

• We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Home
  • Shopping

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

  

  Warren G
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Industry

• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Party
  • Revolution

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Boys
  • Conservative
  • Weight

• The university cannot be an ivory tower, far away from the society, removed from the practical accomplishments of the Revolution. If such an attitude is maintained, the university will continue giving our society lawyers that we do not need.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Society
  • Giving
  • Attitude

• The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

  

  P. G. T. Beauregard
  • People
  • God
  • Revolution

• The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

  

  Adolfo Suarez
  • Revolution
  • Internet
  • To Be

• The Jews tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Jesus

• There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • People
  • Real
  • Marriage

• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Revolution
  • Democratic
  • Romania