Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

Ambrose Bierce

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Ambrose Bierce

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

Ambrose Bierce

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Ambrose Bierce

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

Ambrose Bierce

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Ambrose Bierce

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Anthony Holden

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

Anthony Kiedis

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

Alicia Vikander

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

Alicia Silverstone

One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.

Alicia Keys

Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.

Alicia Keys

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

Alicia Keys

Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

Alicia Keys

Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.

Alice Thomas Ellis

I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

Alice Sebold

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

Alice Sebold

I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon

Alice Walker

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

Alice Walker

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

Alice Walker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walker

The more I wonder, the more I love.

Anna Torv

I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.

Ani Difranco

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

Ani Difranco

i fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change...

Ani Difranco

Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.

Ani Difranco

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Andrew Marvell

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

Andrew Marvell

As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

Andrew Marvell

Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

Amy Pascal

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.