In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.
