Quotes about: love

I'm a quarterback, not a cook. I'm not a restaurant manager. Throwing is what I love to do. It brings me the most fun and the most pleasure. When someone's in tight coverage and you throw it by the guy who's covering him---like a fastball---to complete a pass. And the guy knows. He had great coverage and he still couldn't do anything about it.
– Dan Marino
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
– Dan Marino
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
– Jacques Maritain
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
– Jacques Maritain
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
– Jacques Maritain
He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in.
– Edwin Markham
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
– Christopher Marlowe
I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
– Penny Marshall
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
– Judith Martin
I probably was the proudest Yankee of them all. And I don't mean false pride. When it's real on a team, it's a deep love-pride.
– Billy Martin
I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
– Billy Martin
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
– Harriet Martineau
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
– Harriet Martineau
You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.
– Queen Mary
If you love the truth, you'll trust it-that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.
– Abraham Maslow
Glasgow is always the best city to play though-I love playing there.
– Dave Mason
We are a cult in most places, and I like that. Japan has a lot of love to give the Bluetones. When we go to Spain, France and Germany, it's not big budget swanky time!
– Dave Mason
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
– Henri Matisse
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
– W. Somerset Maugham
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
– W. Somerset Maugham
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
– W. Somerset Maugham
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
– Andre Maurois
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
– Rollo May
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
– John McCain
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
– Mary McCarthy
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
– John McCarthy
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
– Paul McCartney
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
– Bryant H. McGill
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
– Bryant H. McGill
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
– Bryant H. McGill
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
– Ian Mckellen
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
– Mignon McLaughlin
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
– John McLaughlin
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
– Marshall McLuhan
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
– Margaret Mead
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
– Lord Melbourne
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
– Bernard Meltzer
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
– H. L. Mencken
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
– H. L. Mencken
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
– H. L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
– H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
– H. L. Mencken
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
– H. L. Mencken
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
– H. L. Mencken
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
– H. L. Mencken
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
– H. L. Mencken
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
– Karl A. Menninger
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
– Karl A. Menninger
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
– Karl A. Menninger
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
– Thomas Merton
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.
– Debra Messing
I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.
– Debra Messing
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
– Debra Messing
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
– James A. Michener
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
– Arthur Miller
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
– Arthur Miller
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
– Arthur Miller
If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.
– Dennis Miller
There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.
– Dennis Miller
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
– Hayley Mills
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
– John Milton
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
– John N. Mitchell
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor, unassisted.
– Wilson Mizner
I love playing villains.
– Alfred Molina
I love the sound of my own voice, and there's no one else there to give you notes. It's great. When I'm on my own, I think that I'm Lawrence Olivier. It's when I'm working with other people that I realize how bad I am.
– Alfred Molina
I love being a freak. It's great!
– Brian Molko
Most of these are love songs where I'm trying to come to grips with relationships. They're frequently told from the point of view of ex-lovers, so at first it may seem like I'm being arrogant, but actually I'm eating humble pie. I'm cutting open a vein and letting it bleed for you.
– Brian Molko
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
– Dominic Monaghan
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
– Claude Monet
I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
– Eddie Money
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
– Marilyn Monroe
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
– Michel de Montaigne
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
– Michel de Montaigne
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
– Ricardo Montalban
There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
– 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.
– Ricardo Montalban
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
– Charles de Montesquieu
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
– Dwight L. Moody
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
– Sun Myung Moon
Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.
– Sun Myung Moon
People who sow a selfish life here on earth will reap hell thereafter. But this is not the result of the condemnation of God. One cannot reap heaven if he lives and acts against God. God is a God of love; by having humanity suffering in hell, his heart is aching. He cannot enjoy this. God's desire is to ultimately liberate even hell.
– Sun Myung Moon
The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.
– Sun Myung Moon
Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love.
– Demi Moore
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
– Thomas Moore
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
– Thomas Moore
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
– Thomas Moore
I forgot out there on the stage to thank my cast. So if I could do that now, I want to thank Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld. I thought the love scene between Cheney and Rumsfeld brought a tear to my eye.
– Michael Moore
Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
– Michael Moore
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
– Hannah More
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
– Hannah More
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
– Frank Morgan
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
– William Morris
When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.
– Chris Morris
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.
– Jim Morrison
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
– Jim Morrison
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
– Viggo Mortensen
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
– Malcolm Muggeridge