Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adlai E. Stevenson

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

Well, that's not what you want. You don't want the right down the road -- you want the right because you love the person you're with. So no victory will be enough.

Joe Eszterhas

What it is about, at its core, is a young woman making very moral choices. And my suspicion is young women will love this movie as much as they loved 'Flashdance,'

Anthony Warlow

What I don't want is to be in the public's face all the time. I know there are people who will do anything and everything to be out there. That's not my agenda. I love doing what I do and doing it for a period of time and then stopping.

Hari Kondabolu

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

Kevin Whately

The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax.

Khloe Kardashian

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.

Lily James

I love to start the morning with a mist spray, especially after a night out.

Linda Ronstadt

I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy.

Alexander MacLaren

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

Alexander McCall Smith

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Alexander McCall Smith

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

Alexander Pope

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Alexander Pope

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

Alexander Pope

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Alexander Pope

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

Alexander Pope

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope

And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

Alexander Pope

Is not absence death to those who love?

What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?

Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow...

Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.

Albert Schweitzer

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

Albert Schweitzer

We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.

E. L. Konigsburg

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.

E. Stanley Jones

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

E. O. Wilson

If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.

E. M. Forster

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.