Quotes about: love

A cello's soul is the resonance that makes it unique: how it was made, when it was made, who's played it. Mine may be who my parents were, what I know about life, who I love and have loved. All that makes my bones resonate. If a director is fortunate enough to tap into that, it's an endless well of information.
– Ben Kingsley
But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
– Ben Kingsley
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
– Ben Kingsley
I love creatures in their pure form.
– Ben Kingsley
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
– Ben Kingsley
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
– Ben Kingsley
There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of different nationalities because a different national temperament and a different rhythm and a different way of looking at things is enlightening to work with.
– Ben Kingsley
There's probably a young director, male or female, out there somewhere, I don't even know their names, but maybe I'm destined to work with them, and we'll have an extraordinary relationship. I would love to work with Claire Denis because I think she's extraordinary.
– Ben Kingsley
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.
– Rudyard Kipling
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
– Rudyard Kipling
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
– Rudyard Kipling
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
– Edward Koch
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
– Jeff Koons
I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.
– Anna Kournikova
The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.
– Anna Kournikova
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
– Karl Kraus
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
– Ray Kroc
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
– Ray Kroc
I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
– Milan Kundera
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
– Islom Karimov
I said to the wife, Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one. And she said, I'll bet it's that stuck-up Phyllis at number 23.
– Max Kauffmann
You are what you love. Not what loves you.
– Charlie Kaufman
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
– Alfred Kazin
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
– Bil Keane
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
– Sam Keen
The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.
– James Keller
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
– Caroline Kennedy
Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be.
– Ann Kent
I think men are supposed to be boys always. They just go through different stages and if wives understand that they can love them.
– Teresa Heinz Kerry
Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.
– Wilson Bryan Key
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
– Aga Khan III
I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
– Laura Kightlinger
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.
– Jewel Kilcher
I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
– Jean-Claude Killy
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more & all good things are yours.
– Dexter Scott King
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
– Galway Kinnell
To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
– Lane Kirkland
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
– Melanie Klein
It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.
– Melanie Klein
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
– Melanie Klein
I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers.
– Kevin Kline
Pure love produces pure nonsense.
– Jonathan Klinger
I believe in love that's fun,that is caring,giving,and that is honest.
– Jordan Knight
History was always my favorite subject anyway, and I love reading, kind of, biographies and that sort of stuff.
– Keira Knightley
The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
– Beyonce Knowles
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
– Kay Knudsen
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
– Dean Koontz
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
– Dean Koontz
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
– Dean Koontz
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
– Dean Koontz
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
– Olga Korbut
Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.
– Alexandra Kosteniuk
Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.
– Wayne Kramer
Sometimes I love acting but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.
– Kristin Kreuk
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
– Kris Kristofferson
Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.
– Lisa Kudrow
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth;Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust;Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace;Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
– Satish Kumar
I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.
– Michelle Kwan
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
– Madeleine L'Engle
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
– Madeleine L'Engle
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
– Madeleine L'Engle
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
– Greg Lake
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
– The Dalai Lama
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
– Charles Lamb
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
– Ann Landers
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
– Ann Landers
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
– Walter Savage Landor
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
– Walter Savage Landor
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
– Dorothea Lange
In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
– Philip Larkin
Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
– Tommy Lasorda
I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
– Tommy Lasorda
Hopefully by bringing back burlesque, you'll bring back the kind of body that's round on top and round on bottom. I love cellulite and stretch marks!
– Anton LaVey
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
– William Law
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
– William Law
I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.
– David Herbert Lawrence
I shall always be a priest of love.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
– David Herbert Lawrence
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
– David Herbert Lawrence
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
– David Herbert Lawrence
People always make war when they say they love peace.
– David Herbert Lawrence
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
– David Herbert Lawrence
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
– David Herbert Lawrence
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
– Irving Layton
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
– Stephen B. Leacock
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
– Fran Lebowitz
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
– Bruce Lee
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
– Harper Lee
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
– General Robert E. Lee
Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
– Peggy Lee
I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.
– Stan Lee
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
– John Lennon
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
– John Lennon
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
– John Lennon