Quotes about: love

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
– Luther Burbank
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
– Julia Child
The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.
– Stephen Collins
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
– George Saunders
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
– Joan Chen
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.
– Sarah Wayne Callies
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
– Gerard Depardieu
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
– Mary Astell
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
– Maynard James Keenan
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
– Chris Cleave
The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.
– Kelly Clarkson
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
– Jean Racine
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
– William Shenstone
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
– Joseph Butler
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
– Joseph Butler
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
– Andrew Jackson
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
– George Bernard Shaw
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
– Sam Mendes
The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
– Young Buck
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
– Dario Argento
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
– Walter Benjamin
The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.
– Leighton Meester
The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
– Henry Miller
The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.
– Curt Schilling
The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.
– Adam Levine
The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.
– Joel Silver
The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
– Miley Cyrus
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
– William Sanderson
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
– Anais Nin
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.
– Tom Shadyac
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
– Shelley Berman
The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.
– Alison Sweeney
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
– Al Green
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
– Mary Schmich
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
– Honore de Balzac
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
– Adrienne Rich
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
– Andrew Sullivan
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
– John Wooden
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
– Steven Seagal
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
– George Meredith
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
– Ben Okri
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
– Vincent van Gogh
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
– Stendhal
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
– Paul Theroux
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
– Martin Amis
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
– Jane Rule
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
– J. C. Watts
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
– E. M. Forster
The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
– Rachael Ray
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
– Susan Sontag
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
– William Shakespeare
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
– William Hazlitt
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
– Gertrude Jekyll
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
– Alexis Carrel
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
– George Bernard Shaw
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
– Charles Kuralt
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
– George Santayana
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
– Gertrude Jekyll
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
– Blaise Pascal
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
– Bradley Chicho
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
– Polykarp Kusch
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
– Aldous Huxley
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
– George McGovern
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
– Celine Dion
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.
– Charles L. Allen
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
– Brian Tracy
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
– Basil Hume
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
– Bill Walton
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
– Tim Berners-Lee
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.
– Christian Siriano
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
– Michael Jordan
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
– Zig Ziglar
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
– Baz Luhrmann
The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.
– Colin Farrell
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
– Billy Campbell
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
– Anne Lamott
The first duty of love is to listen.
– Paul Tillich
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
– Paul Stanley
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
– Samuel Johnson
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
– Ang Lee
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
– Charles Williams
The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.
– Hulk Hogan
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
– Felix Adler
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
– Honore de Balzac
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
– Margaret Atwood
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
– Mick Jagger
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
– William Hazlitt
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
– Peter De Vries
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
– George Henry Lewes
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
– Emil Ludwig
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
– Lydia M. Child
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
– Lionel Blue
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
– William Godwin
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
– Hermann Hesse
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
– Jasmine Guy