The Romantic Egoist Quotes

#1. It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. Good grief. Are you flirting with me?"
"Honey, my intentions are way past flirting."
"Your intentions could get you a knee in the groin."
Nick grinned. "At least your mind's on the right body part.

Janet Evanovich

#3. Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

Jacqueline Carey

#4. There is no defense against a base on balls.

Joe Garagiola

#5. All language is an aspiration to music.

Steve Almond

#6. Romantic Egoist
What's better, an idiot who never tries ... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

Bisco Hatori

#7. That man is so low you can't put a rug under him." "His

Marie Bostwick

#8. I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

Klaus Fuchs

#9. Romantic Egoist:
The thing is ... it seems like you'd like to say something, but just can't.

Bisco Hatori

#10. Romantic Egoist
Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head ... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try.

Bisco Hatori

#11. Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

Bisco Hatori

#12. The history of the last half century is accordingly in large measure a history of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too much care and who were honored in proportion as they produced the results, irrespective of the means they used.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#13. The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

Dave Barry

#14. But it was as if a tiny animal living in the corner of my mind, smaller than a mouse, smaller than an ant, and unobtrusive even considering its size, was saying, 'Bullshit.

Thomas McGuane

#15. I got sick of the dough, and thought I'd go on the loaf.

Curly Howard

#16. Romantic Egoist
Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain.

Bisco Hatori

#17. Excuses are nothing more than neatly packaged reports on the messy, unknowable truth

Kelly Zekas

#18. Some financial advisers say anyone who may move in less than seven years should not take out a reverse mortgage.

Charles Duhigg

#19. The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

Thomas A. Edison