Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Bareilles

Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.

Saoirse Ronan

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

Samuel Rogers

Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her.

Samuel Rogers

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.

William Ellery Channing

True love is the parent of humility....

William Ellery Channing

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

William Ellery Channing

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

William Ellery Channing

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

Richard M. Nixon

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Richard M. Nixon

Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of Americas most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours.

Ric Ocasek

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Raymond E. Feist

There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times, we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.

Richard Rolle

Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.

Ricardo Montalban

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Rich Robinson

I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.

Rich Mullins

I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.

Reba McEntire

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making

Robert Crumb

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Robert De Niro

When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

Robert Burton

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Robert Burton

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Roald Dahl

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.

Roald Dahl

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Richard Rohr

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

Richard Rohr

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

Richard Rohr

When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.

Richard Rohr

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Richard Rohr

The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.

Richard Rohr

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.

Richard L. Evans

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.