“We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'”
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“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
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“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.”
“Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.”
“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
“I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”
“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.”
“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”
“I love romantic poetry.”
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.”“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”
“Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.”
“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.”
“It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.”
“I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.”
“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
“Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.”
“I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.”
“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.”
“When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.”
“Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.”