Quotes about: love

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
– Francesco Petrarch
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
– William Lyon Phelps
I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.
– Michael Phelps
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
– Emo Philips
I told them I was tired of being in the magazines, and how they made it sound like I love them and want girls so badly to buy them. I'm also doing a photo shoot in a couple of weeks - good honest pictures. They're going to print these pictures anyway, so they might as well be pictures of what I'm really like.
– River Phoenix
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
– Pablo Picasso
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
– Peace Pilgrim
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
– Peace Pilgrim
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
– Peace Pilgrim
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
– Luigi Pirandello
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
– Luigi Pirandello
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
– Robert Plant
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
– Robert Plant
Love is a serious mental disease.
– Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
– Plato
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
– Plato
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
– Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.
– Roman Polanski
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.
– Cole Porter
I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
– Cole Porter
Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
– Cole Porter
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
– Peter Porter
I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
– Natalie Portman
I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
– Natalie Portman
I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk moustaches, they're my heroes.
– Natalie Portman
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
– Natalie Portman
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
– Anthony Powell
What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
– Susan Powter
You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.
– Susan Powter
I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.
– Elvis Presley
Anything my father did for me or gave me was done out of love. I'm sure I had moments when I was a snot. But my mom was there to smack me back to the other side.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.
– Lisa Marie Presley
It hasn't happened very often that I've actually given my heart. Sometimes I can be completely smitten, but I'll still keep it back at arm's length. Because if I do give it to someone and I get hurt, it's tragic. It incapacitates me. I have to be really careful of that. But that's not to say I would be opposed to falling in love with somebody.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
– Richard Price
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
– Marcel Proust
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
– Marcel Proust
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
– Sara Paddison
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
– Ivan Panin
I don't know why they hate me... one journalist once wrote that people either love or hate Vanessa Paradis.
– Vanessa Paradis
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
– Mary Parrish
I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
– Alexander Payne
For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
All I need is a little love now and then, but some chocolate will do for now.
– Lucy Van Pelt
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
– S. J. Perelman
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
– Tony Perez
Thoughts that I ask others several upon several, still feeling spirits upon spirits with the few moments of love, comfort, unity, & compassion all in a few seconds the holding of each other. The hole that is missing is slowly filled with happiness, joy, good or bad times.
– Brian Perkins
Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?
– Brian Perkins
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think they'll hate you.
– Donald Robert Perry
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
– Oscar Peterson
I am the same as I always will be. I'm French and I'm American. I was born in Canada. I love living in America, and I love playing the French Open in front of my French people, who support me.
– Mary Pierce
I'm very sensible and emotional, before it was too personal, when the crowd was cheering me or not it meaned that they loved me or love me not. It was very important for me that French crowd love me. When they were whistling at me and cheering the other girl, it was hurting me so much.
– Mary Pierce
I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.'
– Franka Potente
I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.
– Franka Potente
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
– David Pratt
Trust is the first step to love.
– Munshi Premchand
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
– Japanese Proverb
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
– Philip Pullman
My father grew up in Brooklyn, but he fell in love with the Adirondacks when he went there for summer camp. So after medical school in Rochester, New York, he drove south until he found a city in which to practice - Hornell, in New York State's southern tier.
– Bill Pullman
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
– Barbara Pym
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
– Dennis Quaid
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
– Francis Quarles
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
– Dan Quayle
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
– Thomas de Quincey
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
– Ayn Rand
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
– Ayn Rand
To say I love you one must first be able to say the I.
– Ayn Rand
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
– John Randolph
Love, in the true sense, is not always a matter of giving way, being soft, and just acting nice. In that sense, a sugar-coated Jesus or a God who agrees to everything and is never anything but nice and friendly is no more than a caricature of real love. Because God loves us, because he wants us to grow into truth, he must necessarily make demands on us and must also correct us.
– Joseph Ratzinger
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
– Joseph Ratzinger
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
– Maurice Ravel
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
– John Rawls
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
– John Ray
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
– Ronald Reagan
I don't like the typical good-looking guy. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I like guys with love handles. When he doesn't care 100 percent about his body, I don't have to obsess about mine. I hate a washboard stomach-does not turn me on.
– Tara Reid
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
– Jules Renard
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
– Jules Renard
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
– Agnes Repplier
Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.
– Denise Richards
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
– Lionel Richie
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
– Jean Paul Richter
According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
– Bob Riley
I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.
– Bob Riley
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
– Arthur Rimbaud
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
– Arthur Rimbaud
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
– Arthur Rimbaud
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
– Diego Rivera
Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
– Joan Rivers
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
– Tom Robbins
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
– Anthony Robbins
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
– Tim Robbins
I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
– Julia Roberts
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
– Julia Roberts
True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
– Julia Roberts
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
– Julia Roberts
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
– Frederick William Robertson
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
– Frederick William Robertson