“ Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
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“ Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are something more than fictions. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
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“ Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with. ”
- Jane Campion- Copy
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“ However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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“ Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. ”
- Doug Horton- Copy
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“ The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
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“ Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ”
- Thom Gunn- Copy
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“ As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't! ”
- Lee Ryan- Copy
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“ The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Utopian speculations... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope. ”
- Norman O. Brown- Copy
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“ I wouldn't use physical violence even if I could, because one of my romantic ideas is that physical violence is beneath the dignity of a man, and that whatever you get by physical aggression costs more than it is worth. ”
- Rex Stout- Copy
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“ Because it's romantic, it's dashing, it's a spectacle. It's not bad musically. It's not great. But it's good enough. There's even an operatic aspect to it, which might fascinate certain semi-sophisticated audiences. ”
- John Simon- Copy
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“ We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. ”
- Mary Montagu- Copy
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“ It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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“ Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage. ”
- Brian Molko- Copy
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“ Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. ”
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg- Copy
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“ Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
- Elinor Glyn- Copy
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“ The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby. ”
- Fabio- Copy
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“ Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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