Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Hannah

Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.

Barry Goldwater

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Barbara Cartland

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Barbara Cartland

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Barbara Bush

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

Barbara Bush

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Arthur Symons

And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!

Arthur Symons

Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.

Arthur Symons

Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

Arthur Symons

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

Arthur Symons

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

Aristophanes

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Antonio Porchia

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

Antonio Porchia

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Anzia Yezierska

If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.

Aphra Behn

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Aphra Behn

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Aphra Behn

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Anwar Sadat

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

Anwar Sadat

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Bruce Jay Friedman

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Bruce Lee

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

Bruce Lee

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Brooks Atkinson

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Briana Evigan

You're the twinkling light in my eye. You're my shadow always protecting me. You've always got my back, and I love you for that

Bridget Moynahan

Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

Edward Young

But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

Edward Young

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.