Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gottfried Leibniz

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Gore Vidal

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

Gore Vidal

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

Gore Vidal

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

Gore Vidal

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Giancarlo Esposito

I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing. I am finding new ways to allow myself to soar beyond the parameters of what the writers have written. My key is to commit, and love your character.

Gerhard Richter

I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

Harvey Weinstein

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

Griffin Dunne

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

James E. Faust

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

James E. Faust

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

James Broughton

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

James Branch Cabell

I fear You and, yes, I love You: and yet I cannot believe. Why could You not let me believe, where so many believed? Or else, why could You not let me deride, as the remainder derided so noisily? O God, why could You not let me have faith? for You gave me no faith in anything, not even in nothingness. It was not fair.

Jake T. Austin

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

Jaime Ray Newman

The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me.

Jacques Derrida

I love language as I love life itself!

Jackie Collins

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Jackie Chan

Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you

Jack White

From now on take time to be amazing, tell those who matter, I LOVE YOU.

James Freeman Clarke

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. - Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn

J. R. R. Tolkien

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

Iyanla Vanzant

In love, there is a total acceptance of self, and a willingness to give of self without an expectation of receiving anything in return. When you love, you are not afraid to share the truth of who you are, and you accept the truth of others without judgment.

Iyanla Vanzant

Love is the voice of God whispering to you from within yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.

Iyanla Vanzant

The beloved is one who nurtures you, trusts you, supports you, encourages you, loves you without conditions. That's you.

Iyanla Vanzant

Love is what you are, not what you give or get!

Iyanla Vanzant

Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering

Iyanla Vanzant

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.