Romance Quotes - Page 8

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

For love is immortality.

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

The romance of religion isn't nearly as beautiful as the reality of Christ.

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas...

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Running away will never make you free.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Staying far never breaks relation, staying near never builds relation. Its a link between hearts, which never allows us to forget each other. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention

She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.

Every great love starts with a great story.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.