Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Hoffman

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

Alice Hoffman

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

Alice Hoffman

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

Alice Hoffman

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Duer Miller

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Alice Cary

I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

Alice Cary

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can....

Alice Cooper

Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

Anne Michaels

Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Lamott

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

Anne Lamott

Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

Anne Lamott

Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.

Anne Lamott

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

Ann Wilson

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

Anna Akhmatova

There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

Andy Partridge

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

Alan Zweibel

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

Albert Ellis

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Camus

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Albert Camus

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

Albert Camus

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

Albert Camus

Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

Albert Camus

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.