Quotes about: love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
– John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
– John Lennon
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
– John Lennon
I love cheesecake and whipped cream. Those are my two downfalls.
– Lisa Leslie
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
– Doris Lessing
What is a hero without love for mankind.
– Doris Lessing
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
– Doris Lessing
For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.
– David Letterman
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
– C. S. Lewis
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
– Joe E. Lewis
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
– Sinclair Lewis
I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.
– Juliette Lewis
I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
– Richard Lewis
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
– Richard Lewis
If you like crafty stuff they are going to open the market for crafty people. When Jaime Moyer of the Seattle Mariners pitches, I love watching him. In a way it is a much more interesting game than watching Randy Johnson pitch. You are not only watching a game you are watching a thought process.
– Michael Lewis
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.
– Blanche Lincoln
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.
– Joseph C. Lincoln
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. In love-ness is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about happy and unhappy marriages.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
– Charles Lindbergh
I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.
– John Walker Lindh
But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
– Bai Ling
For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
– Meat Loaf
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.
– Meat Loaf
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
– John Locke
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
– John Locke
I love you Hilary Duff!
– Lindsay Lohan
Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
– Vince Lombardi
I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.
– Shelley Long
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its siken wings.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'
– Jennifer Lopez
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
– Al Lopez
I love the challenge.
– Nancy Lopez
Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
– Sophia Loren
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
– Sophia Loren
The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.
– Trent Lott
If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.
– Christopher Love
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
– Amy Lowell
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
– James Russell Lowell
I love spaghetti and meatballs...I eat a lot.
– Susan Lucci
Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets.
– John Lynch
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
– Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
– R. D. Laing
What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?
– Ricki Lake
Sex outdoors is great. I'm not an exibitionist, but I love the possibility that people might be able to see.
– Ali Landry
Music is love in search of a word.
– Sidney Lanier
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
– Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Flowers, beautiful flowers, children, humanity, lovely, love, life, embrace all - please!
– Yusef Lateef
To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
– Sister Mary Lauretta
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
– Lynn Lavner
I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.
– Lucy Lawless
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
– John LeCarre
God is love, but get it in writing.
– Gypsy Rose Lee
We are made so that we love first, when we see them painted, things we have passed perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see.
– Katie Lee
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
– Annie Leibovitz
I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.
– Jennifer Jason Leigh
Your best friend is the only one who would tell you the person you are in love with is a sexually ambivalent man-child.
– Jennifer Jason Leigh
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
– Greg LeMond
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
– Aldo Leopold
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
– Michael Leunig
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
– Stephen Levine
I love dumb, OK?
– Eugene Levy
I'll look at the script and go, 'This is great. Ooooh, and I love this character, [but] I'm not thrilled with the way it's written.' But you can see how the character should work. So I usually do a lot of re-writing to make sure the character comes through my own eyes.
– Eugene Levy
In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.
– Eugene Levy
There was nothing inherently, bitingly satirical we wanted to do about the world of dog shows and dogs owners. The characters in Best in Show loved their dogs the same way real dog owners love their dogs when they put them in dog shows. We weren't sending anything up there. We were just reflecting something that was real, and we just followed our characters.
– Eugene Levy
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
– Astrid Lindgren
Those of us who had a chance to ask questions should have charged that much for speaking lines. It was like making love in Carnegie Hall.
– Peter Lisagor
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
– Friedrich List
Love, in my bosom, like a bee, Doth suck his sweet; Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet.
– Thomas Lodge
A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that love is stronger than death.
– Paul Lombard
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
– Haniel Long
I would dearly love to hook-up with Mel C again. We've spoken about it and she's really keen on the idea too. The Spice Girls were massive in America, but it would be nice for Mel to have a hit of her own there. Maybe this will be the one.
– Lisa Lopes
I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when I'm lonely I need the noises of destruction When there's nothing new.
– Nick Lowe
I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.
– Matt Lucas
People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that.
– Matt Lucas
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
– John Lyly
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
– Thomas Lynch
I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.
– Natasha Lyonne
I feel very comfortable in the UK. I could see myself living in the Cotswolds. I love it. I've had some great experiences. This is my fourth film here, and people seem to accept me. It's always nice to be accepted and welcomed.
– Andie MacDowell
I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.
– Andie MacDowell
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
– Shirley MacLaine
I love exploring psychology and getting inside someone's head or exploring the dynamics of how couples behave, and I would love to continue finding projects where I have the chance to address those kinds of issues. And sometimes there are going to be moments in my life where I will probably want to play some wild or sick character just to shake things up. I can't just be that nice, reserved guy all the time!
– Tobey Maguire
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
– Og Mandino
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
– Og Mandino
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
– Thomas Mann
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
– Thomas Mann
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
– Katherine Mansfield
I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.
– Marilyn Manson
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
– Marilyn Manson
I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
– Mickey Mantle
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
– Mao Tse-Tung
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
– Imelda Marcos
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
– Imelda Marcos
I love to play football. I'm looking forward to a good year. Win a Super Bowl - that's all I want to do. I'm professional enough to give 110 percent. I want to win. For myself. the team, and the fans. I feel I've been a leader for a lot of years on this team. I'm going to do my part and play as hard as I can.
– Dan Marino
I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
– Dan Marino