Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.

Chris Colfer

People only love you as long as they're getting something of you, but the minute you say something they don't want to hear or do something they don't want to see, all the admiration drains from their hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

China Mieville

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.

Chet Baker

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

David Sedaris

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

David Koechner

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

Carl Sagan

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Charles Dickens

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Alan Watts

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Chogyam Trungpa

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

David Shapiro

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

Byron Katie

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

David Seabury

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

Denise Levertov

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance....

Ben Stein

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Arthur Young

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Elie Wiesel

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Alice Munro

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

Cindy Sheehan

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

Kiki Nesbitt

That was one of the sparks for the show itself.

Immanuel Kant

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.