Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Catherine Deneuve

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Charles Kuralt

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

Aasif Mandvi

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

bell hooks

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance

bell hooks

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

bell hooks

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.

Arundhati Roy

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

Brigitte Bardot

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Charles Spurgeon

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Ball

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Al Pacino

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

Alicia Silverstone

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

Peter Sellers

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

Paul Thomas Anderson

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

Olivia Wilde

I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

James Salter

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

Woody Allen

If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody.

Tony Blair

If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.