Famous Quotes & Sayings

Booth Tarkington

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Jane Austen

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Smiley

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Charlaine Harris

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

David Byrne

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Ameen Rihani

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Kathie Lee Gifford

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Publilius Syrus

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing

M. Wolfe

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

John Gearhart

We'll have to deal with the cynicism and anything that comes our way politically from the policymakers. But people should realize that anything that is wrong with the science is of no value to us either.

Pauline Marois

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

Robin S. Sharma

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Bob Newhart

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Newt Gingrich

There is a very big difference in where the two parties will take America, ... I sometimes get distressed by our friends in the media because they try to reduce everything to gossip, scandal-mongering and cynicism that I think is profoundly false for this country's future. There is an enormous difference in the two parties. We would go two very different places.

Ted Koppel

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Najam Sethi

Given the normal cynicism of Pakistanis, something like this has never happened. I think the scale of the disaster is something that has touched everyone to the core.