Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Teasdale

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

Sandra Bernhard

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Rutherford

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

Samuel Rutherford

Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.

Samuel Johnson

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Wallace Stevens

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Wallace Stevens

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

Wallace Stevens

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Vittorio Alfieri

For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.

Virgil

Each draws to his best-loved.

Virgil

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

Virgil

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

Virgil

Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.

William Howard Taft

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

Willa Cather

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Willa Cather

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

Willa Cather

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

Will Smith

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

Will Smith

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

Will Smith

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

Will Smith

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

Will Smith

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

Warren Buffett

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

Warren Buffett

When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

Warren Buffett

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

Warren Buffett

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you