Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashleigh Brilliant

Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

Arthur Guiterman

The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.

Arthur Helps

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race. One has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but the creation of the imagination; still it is a great advance for a person to be profoundly loving, even in his or her imagination.

Arthur Helps

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

Aprilynne Pike

Like most authors, I also love to read.

Aprilynne Pike

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

Bayard Taylor

Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

Bayard Taylor

Love is better than Fame.

Barbara de Angelis

Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

Barbara de Angelis

If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

Barbara de Angelis

Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

Barbara de Angelis

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara de Angelis

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband...

Barbara Ehrenreich

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Barbara Ehrenreich

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

Avi

Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.

Ava Gardner

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

Love dwindles by pairing.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

Ashley Montagu

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Ashley Montagu

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Ashley Montagu

Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

Bernie Siegel

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.

Bernie Siegel

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

Bernie Siegel

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love....

Bernie Siegel

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

Bernie Siegel

Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.

Bernie Siegel

Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day. You'll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned: Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.

She said she loved us, and she meant it.

She said she just loved it here and wanted to stay.

She's kind of a girlie girl. She's into hair, makeup, shopping, love movies.

Tom Stoppard

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.