Cliche Romantic Quotes & Sayings

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. — Steve Jobs

Sometimes the gap between wrong and right is so negligible that we ignore it altogether. We pretend that the length of a day is 24 hours and that the ground beneath our feet is steady, when in fact the length of the day changes and Earth's axis wobbles constantly as we hurtle around the sun at about 66,000 miles per hour and the sun moves around the center of the galaxy at about 500,000 miles per hour. — Konstantin Kakaes

Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature is like the mute animals. Their level among existing things is below that of a man and above that of a monkey. — Maimonides

Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal. — Jeremy Clarkson

Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do. — Bill Bonner

Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff. — Robert Downey Jr.

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card ... and somehow the activity of writing changes everything. — Joyce Carol Oates

The beat generation (coined in Playboy) — Jack Kerouac

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. — Virginia Woolf

It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic. — Douglas Booth

There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche. — Mindy Kaling

Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.
("The Man Whom The Trees Loved") — Algernon Blackwood

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe. — Mary Oliver

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love. — Thomas Traherne

They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it. — Catherynne M Valente

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. — Josephine De La Baume

I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you
the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does. — Andy Rooney