Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Chan

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

Francine Rivers

I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want

Francis Bacon

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

Francis Bacon

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Francis Bacon

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

Francis Bacon

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

Francis Bacon

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francesca Lia Block

Love is a dangerous angel.

Fran Lebowitz

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

Fran Lebowitz

If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.

George Wald

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

George Washington Carver

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

George Washington Carver

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

George Washington

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.

George Washington

Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.

George Washington

No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

George Washington

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

George Saunders

From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.

George Santayana

Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?

George Santayana

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

George Santayana

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

A friend's only gift is himself.

George Santayana

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

George Santayana

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.

George Santayana

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George McGovern

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

George Orwell

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

George Orwell

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

George Orwell

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.