R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
Source: Thanksgiving
“Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.”
“Romance novels are popular because they’re escapist.”
Source: Love Story
“Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.”
Source: Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.”
Source: Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained
“Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.”
“Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.”
“Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.”
Source: Love in the Western World
“Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience”
Source: Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
“Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control.”
“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.”
“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”
“Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.”
“Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.”
“Romance was awful. She couldn't even murder people anymore.”
Source: Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone. It was in the way he muttered how beautiful I was, the way it made my heart soar. It was in the way I wanted to know everything about him - his favorite songs, finally guess his favorite color.”
Source: The Seven Year Slip
“Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone. It was n the way he uttered how beautiful I was, the way it made my heart soar. It was in the way I wanted to know everything about him -- his favorite songs, finally guess his favorite color.”
Source: The Seven Year Slip
“Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.”
“Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.”
Source: L'Atalante
“Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.”
“Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.”
“ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Romance: That's one of the things that makes Spider-Man really unique, in terms of the comic books. There is a tender, romantic quality to it. And certainly, that's something that's always fascinated me about the cinema: good romance.”
“Romance? What is romance? Is it when I give you flowers? When I give you a gorgeous dinner? Or is it when I simply say, I love you. Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest. Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.”
“romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.”
Source: Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
“Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.”
Source: DON JUAN
“Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.”
“Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.”
“Romances serve but to feed the imagination of the young; they add nothing to the sum of truth.”
Source: The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
“Romane sind dazu da, verschlungen zu werden. Sie lesen ist eine Wollust der Einverleibung.”
“Romani slaves were in demand because of their skilled crafts and their importance to the economic market. With the growing dependency of landowners, monasteries and the Crown on Romani slaves, the Romanian term Tigan came to be used synonymously with 'slave' and it still has a derogatory connotation in the Romanian language today.”
“Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.”
“Romania are more Portuguese than German.”
“Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.”
“Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.”
“Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.”
“Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
“Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.”
“Romanian movies are not made the same as American movies are, only because it's newer there. For instance, cigarettes, over there, are much more prominent, and Americans aren't used to that.”
“Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler”
“Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.”
Source: Letters to a Young Gymnast
“Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“Romans 1: 18 - 32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of Man, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in Truth; for God hath shown it unto Man.
20 For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godliness; so that Man are without excuse:
21 Because that, when Man knew God, Man relatively glorified his self as God, neither were Man thankful to bein His image; but Man became vain in his philosophies, and Man's foolish heart was shrouded in darkness.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, Man
became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the Incorruptible Almighty God into the image like corruptible Man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave Man up to uncleanness through the agenda of Man's own perceptive heart, to dishonour their own bodies between and amongst themselves:
25 who change the Absolute Truth of God into a relative but absolute lie, and worship and serve the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections outside of His Love: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the full recompense of their error.
28 And even as Man did not like to remember God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a polluted mind, to do those vile and reprehensible things;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, false and hurtful appetites, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, indecisiveness, deceit, malignity; gossip,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, braggadocios, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, oath breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the full judgment of God upon them for such behaviour care neither to repent nor recant.”
“Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.”
“Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.”
“Romans had nearly abandoned serious reading." Barbarian and Christian raids were in the background of the phenomena that struck. As the empire slowly crumbled, as a loss of cultural moorings, a descent into febrile triviality, In place of the philosopher, the singer is called in. And in place of the orator, the teacher of stagecraft.”
Source: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.”
Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe