Dating Quotes - Page 27

• Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Girl, School, Knowing

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• I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

  Gore Vidal

  Love, Sex, Afternoon

  "The Moronic Inferno". Book by Martin Amis, 1987.

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• Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Valentines Day, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sex, Engagement, Social

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.96, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful, romantic idea about love. It was almost that you were a victim - that there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

  Emma Watson

  Romantic, Pain, Ideas

  "'I had this fateful Romeo and Juliet idea that love involved pain': Harry Potter's Emma Watson grows up". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. September 21, 2012.

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• Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

  Mark Hoppus

  Girlfriend, Nice, Fighting

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• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

  Hans Kung

  Law, Church, Celibacy

  Newsweek Interview, July 8, 1991.

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• The ‘friend zone’ is like the penalty box of dating, only you can never get out. Once a girl decides you’re her ‘friend,’ it’s game over. You’ve become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like her brother, or a lamp.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

  Cher

  Sex, Clueless, Boys

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• My single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential to mature into marriage, not hanging-out patterns that only have the prospect to mature into team sports like touch football. Marriage is not a group activity—at least not until the children come along in goodly numbers

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Sports, Football, Sex

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• If the guy you’re dating doesn’t seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start ‘figuring him out,’ please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find someone that is.

  Greg Behrendt

  Guy, Needs, Might

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

  William Rathje

  Book, Cake, Phoenix

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• I wasn't dating anyone. I was hyper-focused on acting. So I didn't bring a guy to the prom. I was the lone gay person as far as I knew.

  Randy Harrison

  Gay, Guy, Acting

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• I did denounce it. I de-I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy... bigotry.

  George W. Bush

  Catholic, Bigotry

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• I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

  Dick Martin

  Marriage, Hair, Married

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• Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wells

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• He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

  Amy Plum

  Book, Men, Doors

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• ...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

  Clay Shirky

  Cities, Mets, Spouse

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• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Taken, Sight, Doors

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

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• He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Heart, White, Perfect

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Laughter, Play, Silence

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• The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

  Ed Asner

  Hunting, Treasure

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• I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Men, Ass, Refuse

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• I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Not Interested, Honestly, Serials

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