Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Elizabeth Bowen

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Catherine Deneuve

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Charles Kuralt

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

James Wolcott

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

bell hooks

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance

bell hooks

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

Charles Spurgeon

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

Charles Spurgeon

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them.

Charles Spurgeon

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

Charles Olson

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Dennis Prager

Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'

Dennis Prager

Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?

Deng Xiaoping

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

Freda Black

Frankly, in my opinion, it would be impossible to find an unbiased jury in the United State of America.

Stephen Vizinczey

When too many things are taken for granted, it isnext to impossible to perceive the truth.

Mark Hensby

When Tiger is on, he's impossible to beat, ... People are scared to say it, but it's true.

Mike Evans

I wouldn't have travel plans. If this thing pans out, it may be practically impossible to go anywhere.

Kevin Keen

She's a talented young lady and will be impossible to replace.

Samuel Butler

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Charles Dickens

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Alan Watts

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

Alan Ball

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.