Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Gustav Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Marcus Valerius Martial

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Jalal Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Ken Keyes

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

Ken Keyes

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

Khalil Gibran

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

John Oxenham

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.

Rig Veda

There should be mutual love and co-operation between the guardian and the recipient.

Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

W. S. Gilbert

The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.

Juvenal

But who guards the guardians?

Vicente Fox

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

Janis Joplin

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

Alan Watts

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Chris Brown

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

William Shakespeare

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

Eckhart Tolle

Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

Daniel Handler

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

Florian Mueller

Loving open source and lobbying for software patents simply doesn't mix.

Linda Sellers

She was feisty. She was very bold. She was loving and caring, too.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Charles de Secondat

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Lisa Gansky

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Carol Roth

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Carlos Fuentes

[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

C. S. Lewis

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Agnes Repplier

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Aasif Mandvi

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

John Dryden

In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin

Edna Ferber

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Diablo Cody

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Diana Gabaldon

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Gene Wilder

What is essential is invisible to the eye,

Nadia Giosia

I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

Jodi Picoult

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Marilyn vos Savant

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Mitch Albom

Love wins, love always wins.

Federico Fellini

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Traci Bingham

He said she was beautiful. And that he'd never been with a woman so beautiful.

Laura Marling

Womanhood is something you dont consider until it hits you.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.