Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Szasz

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Thomas Szasz

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Thomas Szasz

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Stevie Nicks

Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

Steven Wright

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Robert Bridges

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

Robert Bridges

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

Robert Bridges

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Tom Shadyac

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

Tom Jones

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

Tom Jones

Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

Tom Jones

Pussy cat, pussy cat, I love you, yes I do. You and your pussy cat nose.

Toni Morrison

Love is divine only and difficult always.

Toni Morrison

But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.

Toni Morrison

Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

Toni Morrison

She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

Toni Morrison

Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.

Toni Morrison

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Toni Morrison

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Toni Morrison

Love is never any better than the lover.

Toni Morrison

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Tom Stoppard

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

Tom Harkin

I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.

Tom Hanks

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

Tom Hardy

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

Tom Hanks

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.

Tom Chapin

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."

Tom Coburn

I can't see the country electing another Bush, i love Jeb Bush - I think he's a nice guy. I just can't see it.

Tom Brady

Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.

Tod Machover

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles.