Quotes about: love

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
– Heywood Broun
I sing of the stain'd outcast at Love's feet - Love with his wild eyes on the evening light. I sing of sad lives trampled down like wheat Under the heel of Lust, in Love's despite; I glean behind those wretched shapes ye see In the cold harvest-fields of Infamy.
– Robert Williams Buchanan
When Harry and I were doing the games together, we were as good as a team as there ever was. His style and mine were so different that it made for a balanced broadcast. The way we approached the job, with the interest and love both of us had for the game, made our work kind of special.
– Jack Buck
I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.
– Sandra Bullock
There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.
– Sandra Bullock
I do love sharks. The tuna fishermen go and fin the sharks and dump 'em back into the ocean. It's basically mutilation.
– Brooke Burns
I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.
– Brooke Burns
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.
– Marian Burros
The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.
– Sophia Bush
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
– Comte De Bussy-Rabutin
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
– Amir Butler
You call it madness, but I call it love.
– Don Byas
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
– David Byrne
Respect is love in plain clothes.
– Frankie Byrne
What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
– James Caan
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
– Julius Caesar
Love is so much better when you're not married.
– Maria Callas
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
– Julia Cameron
The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
– Julia Cameron
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
– James Cameron
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
– Joseph Campbell
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
– Albert Camus
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
– Albert Camus
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
– Albert Camus
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
– Albert Camus
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
– Truman Capote
Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
– Harry Caray
Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through what I do is an incrediable felling and I am just really thankfull for it.
– Mariah Carey
We're here to love you, not confront you.
– Tucker Carlson
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
– Thomas Carlyle
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
– Thomas Carlyle
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
– Thomas Carlyle
I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.
– Robert Carlyle
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
– John Carmack
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.
– Emily Carr
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
– Emily Carr
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
– Jimmy Carter
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
– Jimmy Carter
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
– Jimmy Carter
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
– Nick Carter
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
– Nick Carter
A woman should say: Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman? If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
– Barbara Cartland
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
– George Washington Carver
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
– Pablo Casals
One morning, about four o'clock, recalls June, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I out on the highway this time of night?' I was miserable, and it all came to me: 'I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
– June Carter
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
– Johnny Cash
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
– Willa Cather
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
– Willa Cather
I am one of the people who love the why of things.
– Catherine II
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
– Catherine II
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
– Nick Cave
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
– Miguel de Cervantes
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
– Miguel de Cervantes
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
– Miguel de Cervantes
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
– Marc Chagall
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
– Marc Chagall
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
– Marc Chagall
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Other administrations have had a love-hate relationship with the press. The Nixon administration has a hate-hate relationship.
– John Chancellor
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
– Raymond Chandler
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
– Coco Chanel
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
– William Ellery Channing
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
– George Chapman
Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed-that's me, love.
– Graham Chapman
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
– Ray Charles
On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, I love you. The real trick is to get them to say, Will you marry me?
– Ilka Chase
Love is blind.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
– John Cheever
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
– Anton Chekhov
The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.
– Don Cherry
I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.
– Kenny Chesney
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
– Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
– Lord Chesterfield
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
– Lord Chesterfield
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
– Lord Chesterfield
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
– Lord Chesterfield
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
– G. K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
– G. K. Chesterton
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
– G. K. Chesterton
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– G. K. Chesterton
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
– Maurice Chevalier
I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
– Anna Chlumsky
I spent last summer working at the Museum of Natural History here - classifiing fish. I just love animals!
– Anna Chlumsky
I didn't mean to be a role model. I just speak my truth. I guess speaking from your heart really creates a huge impact, and if I can encourage people to do that, then I would love to be a role model. If I could encourage people to use their voices loudly, then that's my reward.
– Margaret Cho
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
– Margaret Cho
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
– Margaret Cho
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
– Margaret Cho
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
– Margaret Cho
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
– Margaret Cho
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
– Agatha Christie
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
– Agatha Christie
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
– Agatha Christie
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
– John Ciardi
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
– Emile M. Cioran