#anti

I've always thought that men are more romantic than woman. ↗

— Farahad Zama

#men

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind. ↗

— Edward Hicks

#any #appears #arts #been #christendom

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#charming #connery #day #even #first

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#antiwar #because #community #convicted #forbidden

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#after #become #beginning #essence #impossibility

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top. ↗

— Julie Brown

#crazy #i #i think #obsession #over

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#begin #else #grandiose #man #politics

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy. ↗

— Edward Burns

#am #big #big fan #comedy #different

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous. ↗

— Vince Cable

#being #bit #criticised #government #labour

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth? ↗

— Vikram Seth

#philosophical #romantic #equality