Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Mortimer Adler

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited.

Mortimer Adler

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Mortimer Adler

Love without conversation is impossible.

Philip Sidney

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Philip Sidney

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

Philip Sidney

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.

Philip Sidney

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Philip Sidney

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

Philip Roth

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

Philip Roth

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Philip James Bailey

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey

Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.

Philip James Bailey

Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

Philip James Bailey

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

Philip James Bailey

The truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey

None but the brave and beautiful can love.

Petrarch

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Peyton Manning

I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

Pharrell Williams

The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.

Pharrell Williams

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Pharrell Williams

I love what I do, I love my job.

Peter De Vries

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

Peter De Vries

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

Peter De Vries

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Peggy Noonan

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Paulo Coelho

Love is the glue that keeps the stars in place.

Paulo Coelho

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

Paulo Coelho

I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I'm not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months' time, I'll be far away and he'll be just a memory, but I couldn't stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit...

Paulo Coelho

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.