R Quotes
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“romantic positivists”—who believed that with enough thought and therapy, love could be made into a less painful, indeed almost healthy, experience. This assortment of analysts, preachers, gurus, therapists, and writers, while acknowledging that love was full of problems, supposed that genuine problems must have equally genuine solutions.”
Source: On Love
“Romantic relationship is meant to be romantic, which means loving. If it is not any more you may ask yourself why you are still together.”
Source: I Am
“Romantic souls seeking real beauties go to the small shops of small towns, not to the big shops of big cities!”
“Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.”
“Romantic suspense novels: where falling in love can be a dangerous game!”
“Romantic utopianism is the opiate of the leftists.”
Source: Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
“Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping forms, a nervous preoccupation with perpetually changing inner states of consciousness, a longing for the unbounded and the indefinable, for perpetual movement and change, an effort to return to the forgotten sources of life, a passionate effort at self-assertion both individual and collective, a search after means of expressing an unappeasable yearning for unattainable goals.”
Source: The Roots of Romanticism
“Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!”
Source: Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems
“Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.”
“Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism; but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending!”
“Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.”
“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.”
“Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.”
“Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.”
“Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.”
“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”
“Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.”
“Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them”
“Romanticism requires bravery and risk.”
Source: Heart Berries
“Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Romanticism, when placed in the hands of a realist, is the psychological waging of war.”
Source: Screaming into Pillows
“Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.”
“Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.”
“Romantics consider common sense vulgar.”
“Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.”
Source: Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and why You Need to Know about it
“Romantics. This book does contain some romantic ideas, and romantic situations that are of the heart, nothing that is in anyway X rated, not even R. But definitely a bit of romance.”
Source: The Beagle and the Hare
“Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.”
Source: Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
“Romantik bir insan tüm kalbiyle bilecektir ki hiçbir ışık kaynağı bir mumun gizemli güzelliğinin yerini tutamaz!”
“Romantik ist nämlich nicht gleichbedeutend mit Herzschmerz und Rosen. Romantik ist Abenteuer und Natur und Wanderlust. Sie ist Meeresrauschen und der Regen auf deiner Zeltplane und ein Bussard hoch über einer Wiese und das morgendliche Erwachen mit der Frage, was der Tag wohl bringen mag, um dann loszuziehen und es herauszufinden. Das ist Romantik.”
“Romantik sevgi, verdiğin ölçüde almak üzerine inşa edilir. Aşk ise sadece verir; elinde hiçbir şey kalmayıncaya dek…”
Source: Şah. Mat. Aşk.: Bazen bir hamle, bir ömrü değiştirir
“Romantik zihinler romantik şehirlerle buluşsun ve ondan sonra romantizmin mumu dünyada güneş gibi parıldar!”
“Romantizmi ayakta tutan şey tekrardır; tekrar bir iştahı sanata dönüştürür. Üstelik insanın her aşkı tek aşkıdır. Hedeflerin değişmesi tutkunun biricikliğini zedelemez ki! Sadece yoğunlaştırmaya yarar. Hayatta taş çatlasa bir tek yüce deneyim geçebilir başımızdan; yaşamın sırrı da bu deneyimi olabildiğince çoğaltabilmektir.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Roman’s a little gay boy who lives in me. And every time I talk he sort of just appears and I tell him, ‘Roman, you know, stop it, you’ve gone mad, I tell you, mad.’ He’s an outlet to say what I need to say but sometimes don’t want to.”
“Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.”
“Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.”
“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.”
Source: The American Presidency
“Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.”
Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
“Rome alone can resist Rome.”
“Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.”
Source: Old Country
“Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy. The next two centuries saw a long struggle for power between a group of noble families, patricians, and ordinary citizens, plebeians, who were excluded from public office. The outcome was a apparent victory for the people, but the old aristocracy, supplemented by rich pledeian nobles, still controlled the state. What looked in many ways like democracy was, in fact, an oligarcy modified by elections.”
Source: Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
“Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.”
“Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.”
“Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.”
“Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.”
“Rome fell silently to ruins. A New city rose in its place, and it was too erased by emptiness. Like phantom Giants, cities, kingdoms, and countries swiftly fell and disappeared into emptiness-- swallowed up in the black maw of the Infinite”
Source: Lazarus
“Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.”
“Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.”
“Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.”