Romance Quotes - Page 12

• A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Love, Women, Eye

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Every time you see a black romance it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

  Bernie Mac

  Strong, Sex, Black

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.

  Holly Madison

  Girlfriend, Moving, Thinking

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• Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

  Anna Magnani

  Love, Liars, Lying

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• Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

  Demetri Martin

  Running, Children, Glasses

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fragility, Agendas

  "Dressed To Thrill" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. May 16, 2011.

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• It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

  Arthur Miller

  Running, Children, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

  Kate Millett

  Happiness, True Love, Mean

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.37, Columbia University Press

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• Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Anniversary, Book

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• Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Money, Loss, Men

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• Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

  Thomas Moore

  Love, Marriage, Heartbreak

  "Did You Know?/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sports, Running, Independent

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• No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Frivolous, Love Is

  Iris Murdoch (2009). “The Nice And The Good”, p.333, Random House

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• It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

  Brittany Murphy

  Fun, Lost Love, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it's so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there.

  Brittany Murphy

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• 'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Running, Morning, Alaska

  "Sarah Palin: A Sleight of Gender?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Birthday, Sibling, War

  "A Conversation With Walter Dean Myers About Sunrise Over Fallujah". Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

  George Jean Nathan

  Love, Anniversary, Disappointment

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

  George Jean Nathan

  Girl, Running, Fall

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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

  Bill Nighy

  Faces, Helpless, Romanticism

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• The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Running, Dream

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• I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Leadership, Running, Destiny

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