“When I date someone, I think long term. What's the point of dating someone if you only want them temporarily?”

— Ralph Smart

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When I date someone, I think long term. What's the point of dating someone if you only want them temporarily?" by Ralph Smart?

Ralph Smart 339

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Anita, to Ronnie, referring to her were-rat boyfriend Louie; p. 197
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

“Valentine's Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think it's more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/valentines-day-2010 of Valentine's Day (10 February 2010)
Reviews, Two star reviews

“Meeting someone you like and dating him is supposed to make you feel better, not worse.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“I think one has to regard it as a long term process. One has to remember that String theory, if you choose to date it from the Veneziano model, is already eighteen years old”

Edward Witten (1951) American theoretical physicist

"Edward Witten" interview, Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1992) ed. P.C.W. Davies, Julian Brown
Context: I think one has to regard it as a long term process. One has to remember that String theory, if you choose to date it from the Veneziano model, is already eighteen years old... that quantum electrodynamic theory towards which Planck was heading [in 1900], took fifty years to emerge.