Famous Quotes & Sayings

bell hooks

The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

bell hooks

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

bell hooks

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

bell hooks

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

bell hooks

I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

Barry White

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

Baltasar Gracian

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Baltasar Gracian

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

Arturo Toscanini

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Arundhati Roy

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Ari Fleischer

One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.

Ariana Grande

Love your flaws, and own your quirks.

Anthony Trollope

Never mingle love and business.

Anthony Trollope

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

Anthony Trollope

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Anthony Trollope

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Diane Cilento

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

Diane Arbus

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Diana Wynne Jones

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Diane Ackerman

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

Diane Ackerman

Love is the white light of emotion.

Diane Ackerman

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

Diane Ackerman

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

Diane Ackerman

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

Diane Ackerman

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

Diane Ackerman

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

Derrick Jensen

Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?

Desiderius Erasmus

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.