Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marisa Tomei

I love being outside and getting fresh air.

Nadine Gordimer

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Naguib Mahfouz

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

R. D. Laing

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

Publilius Syrus

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

NeNe Leakes

Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

Nellie McKay

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

Neil Strauss

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

Rachel McAdams

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

Niall Horan

I love being in bed almost as much as I love food.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

Nhat Hanh

The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves.

Nhat Hanh

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Nhat Hanh

The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.

Nick Cannon

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.

Noam Chomsky

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

Mike Myers

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

Howard Thurman

Perfect love is long delayed.

Howard Dietz

I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.

Honore de Balzac

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Honore de Balzac

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Honore de Balzac

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

Honore de Balzac

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Honore de Balzac

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

Ivan Turgenev

Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.

Irvin D. Yalom

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

Iris Murdoch

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Iris Murdoch

Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

Idries Shah

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Katie Couric

It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.

Kristen Bell

For Georgina Sparks, love is always a battlefield.