Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

William Butler Yeats

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

William Butler Yeats

Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

William Butler Yeats

Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.

William Butler Yeats

...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray

William Butler Yeats

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

Wilhelm Stekel

Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.

Wilhelm Reich

Love is the absence of Anxiety.

Walter Russell

Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.

Walter Russell

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

Walter Savage Landor

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Walter Savage Landor

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Walter Scott

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

Walter Scott

For Love will still be lord of all.

Walter Scott

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

Walter Scott

He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

Walter Scott

The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

Walter Scott

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.

Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Vladimir Putin

Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

Winona Ryder

Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!

Winston Churchill

My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

Winston Churchill

One ought to be just before one is generous

Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

Winston Churchill

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Rebecca Solnit

There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's enough teachers, there's enough universities for everybody's needs to be met, and the reasons they aren't is not because of lack of resources. It's because of distribution, and that's the politics of hate, which is why this is a movement against that. It's a politics of love.

Rhonda Byrne

Love is... a positive force of life.

Rhonda Byrne

Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others... love yourself and you will be loved.