Romantic Manifesto Quotes

#1. "War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

James Ellroy

#2. Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.

Craig S. Keener

#3. I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

Giorgio Armani

#4. I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

Christopher Gadsden

#5. All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.

Chief Seattle

#6. If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

Lewis Carroll

#7. I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

Donald J. Trump

#9. Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly
about any subject at all.

William Zinsser