Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Margaret Atwood

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

Margaret Atwood

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.

Margaret Atwood

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

Margaret Atwood

Love's never a fair trade.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Margaret Atwood

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Margaret Atwood

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Margaret Atwood

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

Marcus Thomas

Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is nothing without friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Marcel Marceau

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Kiana Tom

I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.

Kid Rock

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

Kenny Loggins

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

Kenny Smith

Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their significance within the whole of life, of society, of spirituality, of history, of nature. In all merely partial or fragmentary perspectives, there necessarily remain undigested irrational factors, surds that one is merely tolerating and not truly respecting as essential and integral to the whole of what we are.

Ken Mehlman

But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?

Kelly Brook

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

Kelly Clarkson

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

Kelly Clarkson

I love a sexy video. I don't even mind raciness. I don't mind that at all.

Katie Holmes

I love all of his movies. I love all his movies. I love Tom.

Margaret Thatcher

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

Margaret Thatcher

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Margaret Thatcher

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Margaret Cho

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.