Romance Quotes - Page 27

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

  Richard Dominguez

  Romantic, Heart, Heaven

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• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Happiness, Running, Caring

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• I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Children

  "The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations". Book edited by Hal Higdon, 2011.

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• Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."

  Daniel Quinn

  Writing, Expression, People

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• To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sex

  "Ideals and Doubts" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Illinois Law Review, 1915.

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• I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fire, Heaven, Progress

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• First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.

  Rosemary Rogers

  Missing Someone, First Love, Love Is

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• When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Buddhist, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.67, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

  Jim Croce

  Romantic, Happy Love, Want

  Song: Time In A Bottle

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• There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

  Melanie Griffith

  Love, Motivational, Dream

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• Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Passion, Energy

  Time magazine, February 03, 1958.

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• There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

  Meher Baba

  Adventure, Realization, Greater

  Meher Baba, A. K. Hajra (1969). “Life is a Jest”

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• Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

  Grantland Rice

  Philosophy, Golf, Tragedy

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• Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

  Steve Winwood

  Love, Stars, Heart

  Song: Higher Love

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• We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Tired, Community

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Wine, Emotional, Thinking

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview by Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Godly, Vulnerable

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• Love never reasons, but profusely gives,
  Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
  And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

  Hannah More

  Love, Giving, Done

  "I'll Tell You What. Next Door Neighbours. Wise Man Of The East. Percy. Trip To Scarborough".

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• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  Barbara Cartland

  Book, Historical, Kind

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• Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

  Washington Irving

  Business, Reality, Enchantment

  Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New York Monthly Magazine”, p.304

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• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspiration, Men, Thinking

  John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 4

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• And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wine, Sunset, Rome

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• As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

  Walt Whitman

  History, Needs

  1855 Leaves of Grass, preface.

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• No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Age, Romanticism

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