Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Dreiser

You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?

Theodore Dreiser

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Theodore Dreiser

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Theodor Adorno

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

Theodor Adorno

In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.

Theodor Adorno

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor Adorno

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Thelma Ritter

Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in. . . .'

Terry Hayes

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

Terry McMillan

Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.

Margaret Mitchell

God help the man who ever really loves you.

Margaret Mitchell

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

Margaret Mitchell

No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.

Margaret Mitchell

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

Margaret Mitchell

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

Margaret Mitchell

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Margaret Mead

Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.

Margaret Mead

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Margaret Mead

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

Margaret Fuller

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Margaret Fuller

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

Marcus Garvey

A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he finds how miserable he is. It is all joy, it sweetens life, but it does not last. It comes and goes, but when it is active, there is no greater virtue, because it makes one supremely happy.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.

Kin Hubbard

All the world loves a good loser.

Kin Hubbard

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

Melinda Gates

One life is worth no more or less than any other

Melissa Etheridge

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Melissa Etheridge

Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong....

Melissa Marr

If you get killed. I'm going to be furious." "I love you too. Come On.

Melissa Marr

I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you,” he whispered. “Lucky them.