Quotes about: love

Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realize the bath water is cold.
– Lorraine Lee Cudmore
When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
– Catie Curtis
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
– Marquis De Custine
A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
– Chuck D.
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
– Salvador Dali
Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.
– Tyne Daly
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
– Samuel Daniel
Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, / Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny.
– Samuel Daniel
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
– Samuel Daniel
Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
– Samuel Daniel
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
– Alvin Dark
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
– Robertson Davies
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.
– Robertson Davies
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
– Robertson Davies
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
– Robertson Davies
I love playing live now more than ever..I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.
– Dave Davies
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
– Dave Davies
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
– Bette Davis
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
– Bette Davis
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
– Bette Davis
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
– Bette Davis
Hugging closes the door to hate. Kissing opens the door to love.
– Tony Davis
I'm a hustler. I'm a smartass, but I love people.
– Richard Dawson
There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
– Richard Dawson
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
– Dorothy Day
I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.
– Julie Delpy
I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
– Julie Delpy
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
– Demosthenes
The fact that I am the dad is the most surprising thing. I love my family very much. And here's the part where I become the cliche father: I have never in my life thought it was possible to feel such deep love, such an incredible connection to this amazing little human being. She's an angel.
– Johnny Depp
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
– Johnny Depp
The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
– Richard M. DeVos
I adore him... I have never been so happy. I have real love.
– Princess Diana
I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
– Princess Diana
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
– Princess Diana
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
– Princess Diana
My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
– Princess Diana
No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.
– Princess Diana
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
– Princess Diana
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
– Cameron Diaz
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
– Cameron Diaz
With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
– Charles Dickens
For Love is Immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
– Emily Dickinson
In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!
– Angie Dickinson
I love performing on the stage, but I don't like being famous-I just don't see the point, it just cheapens everything.
– Bruce Dickinson
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
– Denis Diderot
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
– Joan Didion
Grumbling is the death of love.
– Marlene Dietrich
How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
– Marlene Dietrich
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
– Marlene Dietrich
We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
– Ani Difranco
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
– Annie Dillard
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
– Isak Dinesen
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
– Walt Disney
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
– Walt Disney
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
– Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
– John Donne
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
– John Donne
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
– John Donne
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
– John Donne
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
– John Donne
O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.
– John Donne
For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
– Michael Douglas
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
– Henry Drummond
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
– Henry Drummond
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
– Henry Drummond
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
– Sir William Drummond
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
– John Dryden
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
– John Dryden
Love is love's reward.
– John Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
– John Dryden
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
– John Dryden
I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
– David Duchovny
I don't care why people love me, just as long as they love me. And I don't even care that they do so much. Is it better to have money or not to have money? Better to have love or not? Both money and love may be bad for the soul or bad for the art. I'm on a show that a lot of people like to watch. Does that make me better off?
– David Duchovny
I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
– David Duchovny
My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.
– Hilary Duff
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
– Alexandre Dumas
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
– Alexandre Dumas
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
– Isadora Duncan
I am sure I would love to do it now, but back then, I was, like, 11 and it was 'ugh.' There's nothing sexual or sexy when you're that age. So I was kissing Brad Pitt. So what? He had chapped lips. He was lovely and kind and sweet to me, but it was just yuk.
– Kirsten Dunst
I love my kitties, they are like my babies - I talk to them on the phone. I am like, 'Hi Mom,' she's like, 'Hi'...I am like, 'Put me on with the cats,' she laughs. I'm like, 'hi baby, how's my little girl?'
– Kirsten Dunst
I love what I do and I don't want to stop - This is all I've ever wanted.
– Kirsten Dunst
Madonna is my role model she's such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, she's an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.
– Kirsten Dunst
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
– Will Durant
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
– Marguerite Duras
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
– Lawrence Durrell
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
– Lawrence Durrell
It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
– Lawrence Durrell
Music is only love looking for words.
– Lawrence Durrell
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
– Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
– Lawrence Durrell
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
– Lawrence Durrell
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
– Wayne Dyer
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
– Wayne Dyer
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
– Bob Dylan
I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.
– John Daly
I listen to Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Nat Cole, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles. I absolutely love Ray Charles. I listen to Stan Getz, Ahmad Jamal, King Pleasure. My CD collection is getting too large, but I'd never get rid of those. I listen to Anita Baker, Elton John, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones.
– James Darren