Quotes about: love

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
– Thornton Wilder
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
– Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
– Thornton Wilder
You've all seen these documentaries about the soldiers who have gone to war and had some terrible thing happen to them, and they come back horribly mutilated, and they are unrecognizable as the person that went. Now, what happens? Does the wife fail to recognize them? No, of course, they continue to love them and nurture them. I think, in ninety percent of cases, if it's a happy marriage.
– Tom Wilkinson
The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
– Robin Williams
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.
– Tennessee Williams
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
– Tennessee Williams
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
– Tennessee Williams
Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
– Serena Williams
I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.
– Venus Williams
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
– Barry Williams
Thank you for all the love you gave me. There could be no one stronger. Thank you for the many beautiful songs. They will live long and longer.
– Hank Williams
I'm a self-obsessed son-of-a-bitch, really. Hopefully it makes for good records. People buy them, so I must be doing something right. But I'd really love it if I had the creative power to write about other people.
– Robbie Williams
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
– Marianne Williamson
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
– Marianne Williamson
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
– Marianne Williamson
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
– Woodrow Wilson
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
– Woodrow Wilson
If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.
– Dennis Wilson
There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love.
– Dennis Wilson
It is never too late to fall in love.
– Sandy Wilson
War creates peace like hate creates love.
– David L. Wilson
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
– August Wilson
I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.
– August Wilson
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
– Carl Wilson
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
– Oprah Winfrey
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
– Oprah Winfrey
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
– Shelley Winters
Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
– P. G. Wodehouse
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
– Thomas Wolfe
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
– Thomas Wolfe
I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry.
– Victoria Wood
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
– Tiger Woods
For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them.
– Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
– Virginia Woolf
I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.
– William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
– William Wordsworth
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, Have you got anything I'd like? Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, Extra medium.
– Steven Wright
The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.
– Steven Wright
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
– William Wycherley
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
– William Wycherley
People who love ideas must have a love of words, and that means, given a chance; they take a vivid interest in the clothes which words wear.
– Beatrice Wade
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
– John Wain
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
– Derek Walcott
I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
– Christopher Walken
I love wearing drag.
– David Walliams
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
– J. Donald Walters
The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.
– Elaine M. Ward
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.
– Doc Watson
There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
– Naomi Watts
I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
– Peter Weir
It is not love, but lack of love, which is blind.
– Glenway Wescott
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
– Brooke Foss Westcott
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
– Ken Wilber
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
– Kim Wilde
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
– David Wilkerson
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
– Wendell L. Wilkie
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
– Tad Williams
Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the crossroads is important.
– Dar Williams
I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie.
– Claude Williams
We believe our music is our ministry and we love to spread it everywhere we go.
– Clarence Williams
Anyone can hate. It costs to love.
– John Williamson
My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
– Bruce Willis
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.
– N. P. Willis
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
– Heather Wilson
Children spell love... T-I-M-E.
– Anthony P. Witham
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
– Woodrow Wyatt
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
– Andrew Wyeth
Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and this will be pure H-E double L for me. Oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
– Tammy Wynette
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
– Tammy Wynette
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
– Gao Xingjian
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
– Douglas Yates
A woman can be proud and stiff when on love intent; but love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement; for nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
– William Butler Yeats
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
– William Butler Yeats
Love the giver more than the gift.
– Brigham Young
I have a full, rich respect for fashion. I love its whimsy, its humor, its charm and its rewards. I love its vagaries and its demands. I love what it does for women. But I know, with all my heart, that no woman should follow it blindly.
– Loretta Young
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
– Loretta Young
What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories-the hero was the hero-because that's what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away.
– Loretta Young
At the University of Chicago I majored in epic literature of the world and studied the material that Eliot had studied. I studied Dante, Milton, Lucretius, Locke, Fourier, Darwin, Owen, and many others. I did not need to go to Eliot. I love Eliot's work, don't get me wrong, but I resent people who say I echo Eliot.
– Marguerite Young
Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
– Marguerite Young
I was not influenced by Joyce although he's a great writer, and I love his work. I was influenced by Saint Augustine.
– Marguerite Young
There are many writers I admire, Laurence Sterne, Edgar Allan Poe, Victor Hugo. I was devoted to W.H. Auden. I loved Dylan Thomas, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. I love James Merrill's poems and his short novels. Ambrose Bierce. Vachel Lindsay.
– Marguerite Young
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
– Henny Youngman
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
– Billy Zane
I would love to do a comedy. The primary thing is complexity. The reason I play so many dark characters is because there is room for the unexpected.
– Billy Zane
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
– Frank Zappa
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
– Frank Zappa
All you may need to be happy is love, but to survive you need money!
– Jason Zebehazy
I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.
– Renee Zellweger
They were right. The Soviet regime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. they have laws and I broke them. I hate tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?
– Alexander Zinoviev
The Democrats of the Sixties were all about making love and not war while a war-loving Republican is a man who would fight, bleed, sacrifice, and die for his country. Could you imagine what that very same man would do for his wife in the bedroom?
– Michele Zipp
Forgiveness is love in its most noble form.
– Anonymous
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
– Anonymous
If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
– Anonymous
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
– Anonymous
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
– Anonymous
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
– Swedish Proverb
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
– Dante Alighieri
Truth is a naked and open daylight… Truth which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, and the belief of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
– Sir Francis Bacon