Famous Quotes & Sayings

bell hooks

I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

bell hooks

The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

bell hooks

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

Diane Ackerman

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

Daniel Handler

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

Bob Dylan

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

Boris Pasternak

Failure to love is almost like murder.

Blaise Pascal

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Dick Van Dyke

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

Deborah Tannen

The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Barbara Cartland

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

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.

Brit Marling

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

Charles Bukowski

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

Charles Bukowski

beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average

Charles Bukowski

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

Dominic Monaghan

I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.

David Nicholls

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

Anna Jameson

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

Doris Lessing

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

Cory Booker

In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.

e. e. cummings

For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes

e. e. cummings

time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough

Douglas Coupland

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

Anna Torv

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

Amy Lowell

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

Amy Poehler

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

Ally Carter

love is the biggest con of all

Allen Leech

I love being in scenes where I get to be part of a Maggie Smith put-down. A Dowager Countess put-down is always a special moment. Especially if you're working on set and she managed to do one off set at you.

Alison Krauss

I love being in the world of the unknown.

Ann Hood

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

Ann Landers

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.