Romanticize Life Quotes

#1. One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

Juanita M. Kreps

#2. Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

T. S. Eliot

#3. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Chris Kyle

#4. We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

Mother Teresa

#5. The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.

Richard Flanagan

#6. When we are young, we have stars in our eyes. We have dreams. We romanticize the unattainable. Once the dream is attained, everything seems dreary. Once we are There, we realize there is no There. There is now Here. Disillusionment follows. Life is drudgery. Yet it is important to dream.

Jayant Swamy

#7. People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

Emily Susan Rapp

#8. With patient and persistent, we possess what we want.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect

Jane Green

#10. Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

Anne Lamott

#11. Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

Brad Furman

#12. Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#13. To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

Aziz Ansari

#14. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing

Clementine Von Radics

#15. AhthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell."
"It sounds evil."
"It is," I answered, and we parted.

Gail Carson Levine

#16. A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

Edward Abbey

#17. The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.

Art Bell

#18. When you love yourself endlessly, you will find that the whole world loves you too.

Debasish Mridha

#19. An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

Marion Woodman

#20. Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

John Berryman

#21. You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

Dan Chaon

#22. I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Allen Ginsberg

#23. How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

David Letterman