R Quotes
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“Romans says the creation was 'subjected to frustration, in hope that it will be liberated from its bondage to decay.' In hope! There is hope for the earth. As Christians, we can and should have hope for the earth, as well as our hope of heaven.”
“Romans shall never go to that land where our legions were slaughtered. Roman law now forbids that!”
Source: Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
“Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.”
“Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.”
“Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
“Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy.”
“Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.”
“Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.”
“Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one wants to see the mundane truth when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-limited frottage.”
Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
“Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.”
“romantic consumerism. ‘my needs aren’t being met,’ ‘this marriage is not working for me anymore,’ ’it’s not the deal i signed up for’ - these are laments i hear regularly in my sessions. as psychologist and author Bill Doherty observes, these kinds of statements apply the values of consumerism - ‘personal gain, low cost, entitlement, and hedging one’s bets - to our romantic connections’. (…)
in our consumer society, novelty is key.”
Source: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
“Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.”
“Romantic Egoist
Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain.”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2
“Romantic Egoist
What I find really sad is... his smiles, his kindness... are inspired by a love potion and they don't really mean anything!”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2
“Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?”
“Romantic Egoist: The thing is... it seems like you'd like to say something, but just can't.”
“Romantic feelings or not, I guess it is a sad thing to become a stranger to someone you’ve known and loved for years. In my case, for over twenty years.”
“Romantic haste in drama brings
tears and sighs when the hero dies
but the curtain fall is final
when in life we take the tragic way
The sunset too is a glorious thing
but with it ends the day.”
Source: The Washington Poems
“Romantic heartbreak is a serious non-contagious disease, requiring no pills or syrups, but curable only by a complete dose of Time.”
“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”
“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further from the truth. The state and the market are the mother and father of the individual, and the individual can survive only thanks to them. The market provides us with work, insurance and a pension. If we want to study a profession, the government’s schools are there to teach us. If we want to open a business, the bank loans us money. If we want to build a house, a construction company builds it and the bank gives us a mortgage, in some cases subsidised or insured by the state. If violence flares up, the police protect us. If we are sick for a few days, our health insurance takes care of us. If we are debilitated for months, social security steps in. If we need around-the-clock assistance, we can go to the market and hire a nurse – usually some stranger from the other side of the world who takes care of us with the kind of devotion that we no longer expect from our own children. If we have the means, we can spend our golden years at a senior citizens’ home. The tax authorities treat us as individuals, and do not expect us to pay the neighbours’ taxes. The courts, too, see us as individuals, and never punish us for the crimes of our cousins.
Not only adult men, but also women and children, are recognised as individuals. Throughout most of history, women were often seen as the property of family or community. Modern states, on the other hand, see women as individuals, enjoying economic and legal rights independently of their family and community. They may hold their own bank accounts, decide whom to marry, and even choose to divorce or live on their own.
But the liberation of the individual comes at a cost. Many of us now bewail the loss of strong families and communities and feel alienated and threatened by the power the impersonal state and market wield over our lives. States and markets composed of alienated individuals can intervene in the lives of their members much more easily than states and markets composed of strong families and communities. When neighbours in a high-rise apartment building cannot even agree on how much to pay their janitor, how can we expect them to resist the state?
The deal between states, markets and individuals is an uneasy one. The state and the market disagree about their mutual rights and obligations, and individuals complain that both demand too much and provide too little. In many cases individuals are exploited by markets, and states employ their armies, police forces and bureaucracies to persecute individuals instead of defending them. Yet it is amazing that this deal works at all – however imperfectly. For it breaches countless generations of human social arrangements. Millions of years of evolution have designed us to live and think as community members. Within a mere two centuries we have become alienated individuals. Nothing testifies better to the awesome power of culture.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Romantic love amongst lovers is a different sort of love. But a love shared amongst sisters, can outlast even the greatest of love affairs... centuries later.”
Source: The Sleeping Knight
“Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.”
Source: Al Pacino
“Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.”
“Romantic love has highs and lows and lots of rare emotions and dangerous sensations but it bores easily and has no friendship in it, and often when it's over, it is as if a tornado passed. It's a very expensive form of recreation, a theatre play with daydreams, a frolic of your own in which you are the main event.
Human love is based in every day, not fantasies or illusions. It acknowledges the other person as a separate person and even loves them for their imperfections, for their vulnerabilities and their incompleteness, and allows them to change and to grow. It seeks to honour, not to use, to empower, not to overpower, and when it fails, it just gets cranky, it does not blow a fuse.”
Source: Courage My Love
“Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.”
Source: Zen and Sex
“Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don't really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen. So, ideally... I suppose it's passion combined with the commitment to value someone else completely above oneself.”
Source: Once Upon a Road Trip
“Romantic love is a fairly recent social behavior. Over the course of human history, this approach accounts for very little of humanity’s time here. Yet, in the unconscious and in fairy tales the mythology of love says we can find the perfect mate, someone who unconditionally loves your smells, has a magical connection to you, will live forever, and will raise a family with you. This is part of the relationship neuroses of the modern world. It is based on people not understanding what love is.”
Source: Into the Haunted Ground: A Guide to Cutting the Root of Suffering
“Romantic love is a glorious tragedy for the soul. Losing love leaves us depleted in the blackened landscape. Chard by our obsessions we feel lost, alone, and desperate. In our weakened condition, we glean a new wisdom, a seasoned humility, and a rising sense of decorum.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.”
Source: The romantic love question & answer book
“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.”
“Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.”
Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“Romantic love is deeper than reality; it is more complex, intricate, fragile, and ethereal than reality. Reality does not inspire the exhilaration and ecstasy of love. Imaginative persons whom believe in love experience the exhalation and poetic frenzy of rapture.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Romantic love is ecstasy and intoxication, but marriage is a long voyage.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.”
“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.”
“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.”
“Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.”
“Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.”
Source: Heart of Being Helpful: Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence
“Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky;
wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back”
Source: Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
“Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.”
“Romantic love was invented to manipulate women”
Source: The Venice installation: United States Pavilion, the 44th Venice Biennale, May 27-September 30, 1990
“Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.”
“Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.”
“Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.”
“Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.”
Source: Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen
“Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.”
“Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!”
“Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.”