Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

Alain de Botton

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Alain de Botton

According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.

Alain de Botton

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

Alain de Botton

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Alain de Botton

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

Al Green

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

Al Goldstein

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Al Franken

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

Caitlin Moran

Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

Leslie Mann

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

Meditate in remembrance on the One Lord; do not be in love with duality.

Alex Karpovsky

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

My first thought when I got here was 'Maybe I should have stayed home. But I love to dance, so I stayed.

Ed Martin

Network presidents love to take shots at each other, but they've never been so vocal as they were this summer.

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

James Spader

One of the things I like most about doing a television series is that I really don't have any idea what is going to happen, ... I love that.

Kris Draper

Obviously, we would love to have him in our lineup,

Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worst!

Richard Flanagan

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

Wanda Sykes

Of course, my mother would love for me to work clean,

No one is complaining. They love the moisture.

Bertolt Brecht

One weakness is enough, and love is the deadliest.

Eleanor Catton

Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.

No, I have not. There's only one woman in my life, and I still love her to death.

John Donne

Nurse, O my love is slain, I saw him go / O'er the white Alps alone.

John Keble

New every morning is the love / Our wakening and uprising prove.

William Penn

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely

Gary Ross

Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

Basil Hume

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

Eddie Vedder

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?

Ed Murray

Obviously people in Seattle love a little more sun but also nothing is built for it, i miss my rain.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.