Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olivia Newton-John

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

Olivia Newton-John

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being...

Oliver Herford

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Reed

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

Oliver Goldsmith

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Oliver Goldsmith

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Oliver Goldsmith

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Oliver Goldsmith

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

Oliver Goldsmith

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Margaret Atwood

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

Margaret Atwood

...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous.

Margaret Atwood

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Margaret Atwood

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

Margaret Atwood

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

Margaret Atwood

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.

Margaret Atwood

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Margaret Atwood

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Margaret Atwood

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Marcus Thomas

Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is nothing without friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Marcel Marceau

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Kiana Tom

I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.

Kid Rock

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

Kenny Loggins

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.