Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Greene

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

Graham Greene

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Graham Greene

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

Graham Greene

I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.

Graham Greene

When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity…

Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Golda Meir

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Girolamo Savonarola

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Giuliana Rancic

Wait, I kinda do love you.

Giuliana Rancic

I love your hair! It's kind of messy but like, done.

Gisele Bundchen

Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.

Gisele Bundchen

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Gerald Vann

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

Gerald Massey

The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!

Gerald Massey

Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

Gerald Massey

Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

Gerald Durrell

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

Harriet Lerner

It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.

Harriet Martineau

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

Harriet Martineau

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt...If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Halle Berry

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

Halle Berry

Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

Gregory Corso

it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible

Gregory David Roberts

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever..

Gregory David Roberts

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

Gregory David Roberts

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Gregory David Roberts

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

Gregory Maguire

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.

Homer

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Horace Bushnell

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.