Quotes about: love

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
– Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Where love is, there God is also.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
– Mahatma Gandhi
I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
– Adam Garcia
They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
– Adam Garcia
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
– Andy Garcia
Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.
– Jeff Garcia
I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
– Art Garfunkel
I hated performing. I love to sing but I don't love to sing in front of people. I don't have much of a feel for performing. When I think of performing, I think of being so nervous you want to throw up. That's what performing means to me. Singing in the recording studio when there's no one else around, that's a whole different thing.
– Art Garfunkel
I used to chart the records. I used to listen Hit Parade. I was in love with the Hit Parade for its own sake. I loved the rise and fall of the records with their numbers. Records that went from 11 to four. It killed me because of the numbers. And I had my graph chart of all these things. And I was very mathematical.
– Art Garfunkel
Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.
– Art Garfunkel
Then I would sing a little in the synagogue. See, if you're a singer, you love to turn your own ears on. You look for those rooms where the reverb is great. I remember the synagogue had a lot of wood and it was a great room. And it was a captive audience and you could sing these minor key songs and make them cry, and that was a thrill.
– Art Garfunkel
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
– Judy Garland
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
– Judy Garland
People everywhere love Windows.
– Bill Gates
The browser space that we are in we have about 90 percent. Sure, Firefox has come along, and the press love the idea of that. Our commitment is to keep our browser that competes with Firefox to be the best browser - best in security, best in features.
– Bill Gates
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
– Charles de Gaulle
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
– John Gay
Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
– John Gay
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
– John Gay
What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
– John Gay
I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and forget, and to join with me in making for the land they love a new era of peace, contentment and goodwill.
– King George V
I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.
– Melissa George
Lauren Reed is the rockingest, coolest assassin around. I love when she just shoots and she doesn't blink. She's really lazy with it and then she just, not even rushing, just really slowly, like puts it into the case. Like, there's no hurry.
– Melissa George
I love the soul sound that the Bee Gees are into now, and that's the kind of feel that I want to have on all my records. Unfortunately, though, I don't write in that vein. I'm better at writing country-rock music because, while I was recording in Miami, the Eagles were working in the studio next door and I was heavily influenced by their sound.
– Andy Gibb
Victoria didn't tell a soul about our love affair, nor did I. We spent time at each other's homes, sneaking in and out like criminals, although we were so profoundly happy it was ridiculous. Then I felt outraged; I wanted the world to know that I was in love with Victoria, that she felt the same way about me.
– Andy Gibb
Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.
– Andy Gibb
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
– Barry Gibb
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
– Barry Gibb
I'd have to say, without a doubt, it's a pure love of pop music and the fact that we're a family that's knit together.
– Barry Gibb
The other secret is that Linda and I are still in love. And being really in love doesn't go away. It's also about being friends.
– Barry Gibb
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
– Edward Gibbon
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
– Kahlil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
– Kahlil Gibran
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
– Kahlil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
– Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
– Kahlil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
– Kahlil Gibran
Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
– Kahlil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
– Kahlil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
– Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
– Kahlil Gibran
I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.
– Mel Gibson
I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.
– Mel Gibson
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
– Andre Gide
The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
– Jerry Gillies
I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.
– Newt Gingrich
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
– Nikki Giovanni
We love because it's the only true adventure.
– Nikki Giovanni
There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.
– John Glover
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I love you, what does that matter to you!
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love can do much, but duty more.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
– Emma Goldman
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
– Emma Goldman
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
– Emma Goldman
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
– Emma Goldman
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
– Emma Goldman
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
– Emma Goldman
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
– Oliver Goldsmith
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
– Samuel Goldwyn
I've never been bored in my life working. A lot of people get bored after five minutes. They want to go home and pick up their check. That's never been the case for me. I'm always the first to arrive and the last to leave because I truly enjoy what I'm doing. That's why I've been in show business for so long-I love it!
– Gale Gordon
My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
– Gale Gordon
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
– Maxim Gorky
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
– Remy de Gourmont
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.
– Billy Graham
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
– Martha Graham
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
– James Graham
But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.
– Amy Grant
I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.
– Amy Grant
I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.
– Amy Grant
You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
– Amy Grant
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.
– Robert Graves
What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
– Robert Graves
All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.
– John Gray
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
– John Gray
The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.
– Andrew Greeley
The role of Mary the Mother of Jesus is to reflect the woman and the love of God.
– Andrew Greeley
The storyteller is like God, the storyteller creates these characters. Falls in love with them, and then they won't act right.
– Andrew Greeley
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
– Andrew Greeley
What's more important? Life after death or birth control? What is more important? God's forgiving love or premarital sex?
– Andrew Greeley
Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
– Andrew Greeley
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
– Philip Green
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
– Eva Green
Benny Hill's character is this twisted sexual deviant who professes his love for obese women, which I thought was so funny. There was nothing like that in this movie, so I thought it would be fun to play my character as someone who had no social graces, yet was embittered by the fact he was universally refused by women.
– Seth Green
I certainly appreciate the national love of The Italian Job, and it's completely warranted. But I don't feel like our movie will compromise anybody else's. Because even if you hate this version, you've still got that one.
– Seth Green
I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.
– Seth Green
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
– Graham Greene
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
– Graham Greene
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
– Germaine Greer