Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brainerd

O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen.

David Brainerd

Oh that God would humble me deeply in the dust before Him! i deserve Hell every day for not lovingmy Lord more, who has, i trust, loved me and given Himself for me.

David Brainerd

I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!

David Brooks

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

Ben Whishaw

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

Beatrice Webb

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Beatrice Wood

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

Baroness Orczy

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

August Strindberg

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

August Strindberg

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

Audrey Hepburn

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

Audrey Hepburn

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Audrey Hepburn

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Audre Lorde

There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light.

Audre Lorde

The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

Arthur Rubinstein

People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Arthur Rimbaud

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

Arthur Rimbaud

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

Arthur Rimbaud

I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log....

Arthur Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Armstrong Williams

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

Arnold Bennett

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Scott Westerfeld

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Diablo Cody

Love is mysterious and rad, like Steve Perry from Journey

Denzel Washington

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

Denise Levertov

Love is a landscape the long mountains define but don't shut off from the unseeable distance.

Denis Waitley

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch.

Denis Waitley

Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.

Denis Waitley

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.