Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

Jonathan Swift

Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

Jonathan Sacks

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

Jonathan Safran Foer

Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. table ivory elephant charm rainbow onion hairdo violence melodrama honey...None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her but to each she would have to say I don't love you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Love...is the immovability of truth.

Jonathan Safran Foer

That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.

Jonathan Safran Foer

If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Napoleon Hill

Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

Napoleon Hill

One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

Napoleon Hill

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Liz Carpenter

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

Logan Lerman

I just love being in the U.K.

Lyndsy Fonseca

When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.

Lynda Barry

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Ludwig Borne

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Ludacris

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

Luciano Pavarotti

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Luciano Pavarotti

Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.

Louise Penny

Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

Louis Dudek

Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.

Louis C. K.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

Louis de Bernieres

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.