Unromantic Romantic Quotes

#1. You have a destination that doesn't include acting like this moment isn't inhabitable, hasn't happened before, and the before isn't part of the now as the night darkens and the time shortens between where we are now and where we are going.

Claudia Rankine

#2. As I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken

Benjamin Franklin

#3. Mother came over and gave Luke's shoulder a reassuring squeeze before turning back to the stove. They had defied the Government once, with Luke. That had taken all the defiance they had in them. Maybe more.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#4. [Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.

Robert Redford

#5. A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

Mark Rippetoe

#6. I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Jock Sturges

#7. He offered her the world. She said she had her own.

Monique Duval

#8. It is futile to advance the argument that glasses are unromantic. They are not. I know, because I wear them myself, and I am a singularly romantic figure, whether in my rimless, my Oxford gold-bordered, or the plain gent's spectacles which I wear in the privacy of my study.

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

Dave Mustaine

#10. Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Audrey Hepburn

#12. And at any moment it all ends with a heartbeat ... just one heartbeat, and there's no more time. One heartbeat and the chance to be saved is gone. One heartbeat and there's no more choosing - it's all sealed for eternal life or eternal death.

Jonathan Cahn

#13. I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad.

Stephen Chbosky

#14. When informed of her husband's latest suicide, Louise began

Kori Mayer

#15. I don't like the word "hero." There are no heroes in war. As soon as someone picks up a weapon, they can no longer be good. They won't be able to.

Svetlana Alexievich

#16. A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more.

Robin Hobb