Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving.

Ina May Gaskin

Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction.

Igor Stravinsky

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Idries Shah

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Gregory Maguire

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.

Gloria Naylor

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Gloria Vanderbilt

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

Gloria Steinem

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

Gloria Steinem

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

Gloria Steinem

Some women and men seem to need each other.

Gloria Steinem

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Geraldine McCaughrean

It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.

Love is the part of us that is real.

Love doesn't care what we call it.

The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

J. M. Coetzee

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

J. K. Rowling

For some to love you, some must loathe you.

J. K. Rowling

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

J. K. Rowling

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

J. K. Rowling

I love you, Hermione,” said Ron.

J. K. Rowling

Love is the strongest power there is.

J. K. Rowling

I love you, Hermione,” said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, “Don’t let Lavender hear you saying that.” “I won’t,” said Ron into his hands. “Or maybe I will . . . then she’ll ditch me . . .

J. K. Rowling

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

J. K. Rowling

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

Natalie Babbitt

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

Natalie Clifford Barney

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Lovers should also have their days off.

Nancy Lublin

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

Nancy Mitford

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.