Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Mae Brown

Love is the wild card of existence.

Rita Mae Brown

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Rita Mae Brown

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

Rita Mae Brown

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Rick Mercer

The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.

Rick Moody

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?

Richard Wagner

...you know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.

Rene Descartes

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Thornton Wilder

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

Thornton Wilder

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Thomas Otway

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

Thomas Paine

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Thomas Hood

The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.

Thomas E. Mann

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Thomas Browne

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Thomas Browne

True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.

Timothy Leary

Think for yourself and question authority.

Thomas S. Monson

How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'

Thomas S. Monson

The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.

Thomas S. Monson

May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

Thomas Sowell

Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

Robert Morgan

What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.

Robert Menzies

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

Robert Heller

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Robert H. Schuller

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

Robert H. Schuller

We are the Love, loving.

Robert Greene

Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown.

Robert Ballard

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Robert Anton Wilson

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.