Quotes and Sayings about love

 

 

"I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Love, Time, God, People, Bible, Study, Years)

"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Love, Anger, Man, Nothing)

"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: History, Love, Habit, Research, Support, Writing)

"Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Home, Love, Time, People, Help)

"There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Love)

"America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Love, America, Innocence, Saying, Training)

"I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Love, Job)

"The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Love, War, Idea, Israel, Pretty, Thinking, World)

"I love parties. I love a good time."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Love, Time)

"My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Music, Favorite, Jazz, Listening, Queen, Singing)

"I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Music, Computer, Fun)

"I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Listening, Right, Song, Voice)

"There's nothing more human than two people making love."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Love, People, Nothing)

"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Love, People, Television)

"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Love, Society, Act)

"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Love)

"I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely!'"
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Love, Hair, Past)

"I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Love, Old)

"I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Love, Body, Help)

"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Love, Thought, Reality, Spirit)

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Love, Sound)

"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
- John Adams
(Related: Love, Admiration, Birds, Children, Heroes)

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."
- John Adams
(Related: Heart, Desire, Man)

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Happiness, Life, Love, Hope)

"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Love, Constancy, Courtship)

"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Love, Pain, Treasure)

"But no one frees himself from being in love in three days."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Being)

"You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Being)

"There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Admiration, Joy)

"One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Control, Risk, Suffering)

"In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Promises)

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Love, Law, Man, Mankind, Years)

"The family is the school of duties - founded on love."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Family, Love, School)

"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Love, Fashion)

"Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Love, Country, Woman)

"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Friendship, Love)

"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Desire, Lust, Pleasure, Self, Wrong)

"I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, People, Wonder)

"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Choice, Interest, Man, Woman)

"Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Instinct)

"Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love)

"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Friendship, Love, Mother, Example)

"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, English, Names)

"Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Joy)

"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, God, Belief, Christian, World)

"Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Scientists, Theories)

"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Earth, Justice)

"Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Lonely)

"We love even when our love is not requited."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love)

"When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Care, Difference, Justice, World)

"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Giving, Pleasure)

"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Effort, Reading)

"Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Being, Sense)

"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Immortality, Wishes)

"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Lust, Pleasure, Sexuality, Want)

"Love without conversation is impossible."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Conversation)

"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Strength, May, Will)

"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Power)

"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Harm, Past)

"There is no love that is not an echo."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Echo)

"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Help)

"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Love, Nature, Man, Right, Woman)

"The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Love, History, First)

"My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Family, Love)

"I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Love, Time, Hair, Rest, Talking, Thinking)

"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Love, People, Desire, Privilege)

"I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Art, History, Love, Movies, Friends, Museums, Reading, Relaxation, Writing)

"I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!"
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Positive, Being)

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved."
- Eden Ahbez
(Related: Love)

"Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters."
- Eden Ahbez
(Related: Love, People, Hate, Lovers)

"I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Education, Life, Love, Study)

"I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Love, Education, Opportunity, Help, Kids, School)

"You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Love)

"I love you, what star do you live on?"
- Conrad Aiken
(Related: Love)

"All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by."
- Conrad Aiken
(Related: Ending, Now, Will, Youth)

"This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come."
- Greg Akcelrod
(Related: Art, Experience, Love, Acting, Building, Years)

"I am marrying her because I love her."
- Akihito
(Related: Love)

"I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position."
- Lauren Alaina
(Related: Love, People, Winning)

"I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do."
- Lauren Alaina
(Related: Love, Hope, America)

"I love very much to draw animals."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Love, Animals)

"What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment."
- Eddie Albert
(Related: Love, Energy, Sentiment, World)

"Love each other or die."
- Mitch Albom
(Related: Love)

"I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair."
- Madeleine Albright
(Related: Love, Americans, Europe)

"Love is a great beautifier."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Love)

"I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun."
- Alan Alda
(Related: Love, People, Court, Fun, World)

"What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"I paint because I love to cut mats."
- Arthur Alexander
(Related: Love)

"I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing."
- Khandi Alexander
(Related: Love, Comedy)

"I loved all the world's mythologies."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: World)

"I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Love, Character, Beginning, End, Television)

"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Love, First)

"Words of love, are works of love."
- William R. Alger
(Related: Love, Words)

"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Love, Man, Meaning, Risk, Today, Unworthy)

"I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: People, Man)

"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Love, People, World)

"I love to doubt as well as know."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Love, Doubt)

"I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one."
- Gary Allan
(Related: Home, Love, Soul, Shadows, Will)

"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
(Related: Love, God, People, Defense, Self)

"It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Love, Achievement, Goals, Dependence, World)

"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Time, Walking)

"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation."
- James Allen
(Related: Intelligence, Love, Power, Thoughts, Being, Choice, Key, Man, Right)

"Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love."
- James Allen
(Related: Love, Expression, Harmony, Law, Spiritual)

"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
- James Lane Allen
(Related: Love, Travel, Thoughts, Today, Tomorrow, Will)

"Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws."
- Karen Allen
(Related: Love, People, Flaws, Friends, Lovers)

"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."
- Karen Allen
(Related: Ability, Act, Desire, Living, Possibilities, Support, Theatre, Washington)

"I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life."
- Karen Allen
(Related: Life, Love, Money, First, First love, Rest, Shakespeare)

"Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it."
- Karen Allen
(Related: Love, Work, Idleness, Respect)

"Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men."
- Krista Allen
(Related: Love, Men, Time, Boys)

"I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys."
- Krista Allen
(Related: Love, Men, Sports, Women, Boys, Makeup)

"If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Love, God, Burden, Children, Country)

"I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game."
- Richie Allen
(Related: Love, Business, Being, Horses, Nothing, Shame)

"Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Love, Arguments, Beliefs, Help, Proof, Zeal)

"The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Love, Truth, Holiness, Man, Spirit)

"I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Love, Cooking)

"Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party."
- Ted Allen
(Related: People, Guest, Party)

"What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Love, Enthusiasm)

"I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Practice)

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Love)

"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Love, Experience, Sex, Pretty)

"I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Attitude, Care)

"I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Love, Marriage)

"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Love, People, Responsibility, Right, Students, Will)

"You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Love, Movies, Pretty)

"Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Love, Mother, Want)

"Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process."
- Marc Almond
(Related: Music, Idea, Russia, Songs)

"I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Family, Love, Admiration, Company, Past, Respect, Years)

"I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town."
- Lauren Ambrose
(Related: Love, Work, Thought, Being, Commitment, Day, Ego)

"Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible."
- Lauren Ambrose
(Related: Love, Son, Thought, Being, Feeling)

"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Faith, Love, Knowledge, Hope, Future, Past)

"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."
- William Ames
(Related: Religion, Faith, Love, God, Hope, Act, Hearing, Prayer, Spiritual, Word)

"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things."
- William Ames
(Related: Nature, God)

"In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor."
- William Ames
(Related: Love, Contentment, Joy, Perfection)

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Life, Time, Love, Haste, Journey)

"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Women, Pretty)

"Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Love, Sex)

"Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Time, Change, Realism)

"I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Time, Food, Feet, First)

"I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Love, Cause, Feeling, Feet, Storms, Walking)

"In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Love, Trust, Kids, Lust, Man)

"We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life."
- David Amram
(Related: Beauty, Dreams, Life, Love, Family, Country, Jazz, Language, Leading, Living)

"Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter."
- Anacreon
(Related: Love, Money, War, Brothers, Parents)

"I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad."
- Anacreon
(Related: Love)

"I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous."
- Elena Anaya
(Related: Dreams, Love, Mom, Day, Living, Old, Saying, Years)

"My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Life)

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live."
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Dreams, Love, Goals, Completion, Deep, Meaning, Needs)

"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."
- Greg Anderson
(Related: Experience, Life, Love, Wisdom, Creativity, Wellness, Day, Expectations, Worth)

"I love X-Games music."
- Jon Anderson
(Related: Love, Music)

"If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Family, Love, People)

"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Love, Mom, Force, Justice)

"Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Caring, Reading)

"Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that."
- Louie Anderson
(Related: Love, World)

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Love, Romantic, Want)

"Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Love, Time, Sickness)

"I am a lover and have not found my thing to love."
- Sherwood Anderson
(Related: Love)

"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."
- Sherwood Anderson
(Related: Work, Love, Envy, Horses)

"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy."
- Walter Anderson
(Related: Love, Trust, Joy)

"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade
(Related: Heart)

"I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things."
- Ursula Andress
(Related: Love)

"All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love, Time)

"If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love)

"I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love)

"I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Love, Career, Singing)

"This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Music, Quality, Pleasure)

"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Experience, Moments, Will)

"I just want to get a Ph.D. in love."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Love, Want)

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Love, Difference, Kindness)

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Love, Choice)

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Love, Force, Joy, Possession)

"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Love, Ability)

"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Love, Marriage, Day)

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Experience, Life, Love)

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, Work, Courage, Hope)

"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, Trust, Women, Revolution, Necessity, Sadness)

"Life loves the liver of it."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Life)

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, Hope)

"Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, Time)

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, People, Smile)

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, Respect, Self, Self respect)

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, Life, World)

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.""
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Life)

"The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Love, Pain)

"True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Love)

"The best smell in the world is that man that you love."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Love, Man, World)

"Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Love)

"I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Love, Being, Butterflies, Effect, Feeling)

"War scenes are less difficult than love scenes."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: Love, War)

"You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Change, Love, Life, Needs, Will)

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Life, Love, Will)

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Love)

"A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Love, Actor)

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Love, Life, Enemy)

"Things are beautiful if you love them."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Love)

"We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike."
- David Ansen
(Related: Love, Understanding, Value)

"I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face."
- Adam Ant
(Related: Women, Life, Woman)

"The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?"
- Katharine Anthony
(Related: History, Romance, Truth, Lovers, Satisfaction)

"I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Love, Time)

"I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Work, Chance, Lovers, May, Today)

"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship."
- Robert Anthony
"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Love, Health, Positive, Honor, Police, Prayer)

"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
- Antisthenes
(Related: Truth, People, Friend, Enemy, Temper)

"To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction."
- Minna Antrim
"I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Love, Men, Want)

"People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them."
- Aharon Appelfeld
(Related: Love, People, Parents)

"I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Love, Now, School)

"The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries."
- Shiri Appleby
(Related: People, Countries, Questions)

"If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself."
- Stuart Appleby
(Related: Dad)

"I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Family, Love, Music, Being, Christmas, Snow)

"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Love, God, First, Harmony)

"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Right, Self)

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Love, Knowledge)

"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Love, Force)

"The things that we love tell us what we are."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Love)

"Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Love, Being, Hatred, Nothing)

"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Being, Myths, Philosophy, Poets, Wonder)

"We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously."
- Avi Arad
(Related: Love)

"I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions."
- Avi Arad
(Related: Love, Thought, People, Opinions)

"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."
- Louis Aragon
(Related: Love, People, Solitude)

"I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: First, Horror, Jobs, Mystery, Writing)

"The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Love, Behavior, Conscience, Result)

"I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Love, Books)

"The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Love, Reason, Will)

"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
- Diane Arbus
(Related: Love, Understanding)

"Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there."
- Joan of Arc
(Related: Love, God, English, France, Hatred, Nothing, Will)

"Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Love, Earth)

"I've loved art for more than 30 years."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Art, Years)

"Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction."
- Mary Archer
(Related: Love, Marriage)

"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Love, Experience, Mistake, People, Poets)

"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
- Pietro Aretino
(Related: Love, Truth, Hate, Lies)

"The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Love, Hope, Film, Opera)

"When I was five. That's when I started to love film."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Love, Film)

"Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Love, Desire, Name, Pursuit)

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
- Aristotle
(Related: Liberalism)

"No one loves the man whom he fears."
- Aristotle
(Related: Man)

"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
- Aristotle
(Related: Love, Truth, First, Friends, Honor, Piety)

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle
(Related: Love, Soul)

"I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Love, Work, Drama, Honor, Variety, Want)

"I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Age, Love, Time, Living)

"It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Love, Order)

"Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Love, Yesterday)

"One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Dancing, Song, Tribute)

"I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Love)

"I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through."
- Richard Armour
(Related: Love)

"I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Art, Love, School)

"We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up."
- Brody Armstrong
"At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Love, Muslim, Beginning, Countries, France, Leading)

"If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love."
- Rollo Armstrong
(Related: Love, Fear, Will)

"Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: Love, Fight)

"The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: Love, Success)

"I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: Love, Name, Television)

"Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Love, Famous, Want)

"The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Love, Instinct, Liberty, Light, Man)

"It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Thought, Light, Spring, Sun)

"Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Love, Culture, Perfection, Study)

"At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Business, Love, Travel, American, Pretty)

"I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship."
- Patricia Arquette
(Related: Love, Marriage, Humor, Sense)

"I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me."
- Rosanna Arquette
(Related: Love, Music, Artists, Musicians)

"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"
- Bea Arthur
(Related: Baseball, Being)

"Lucy was lovely."
- Bea Arthur
"In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning."
- Roger Ascham
(Related: Love, Fear, Learning, Opinion)

"Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning."
- Roger Ascham
(Related: Love, Children, Learning)

"I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold."
- Timothy Garton Ash
(Related: Love, Country)

"I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold."
- Paddy Ashdown
(Related: Love, People, Country, Difference, Politicians)

"When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Happiness)

"We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Love, Men, Power, Women, Education, Laws, Old, Respect)

"I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Love, People, Want)

"I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Love, End, Months, Past)

"I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Love, Music, Career)

"Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work."
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
(Related: Love, Work, Quality)

"The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children."
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
(Related: Love, Truth, Children)

"The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre."
- Leon Askin
(Related: Mother, Entertainment, Interest, Theatre)

"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
- Margot Asquith
(Related: Men, War, Expression, Faces, Man)

"You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Love, Being)

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Love, Peace, Hatred)

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Love)

"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Christ, Gifts, Grace, Overcoming, Self)

"Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Love, Action, World)

"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
(Related: Wisdom, Love, Father, Son, God, Dignity, Eyes)

"Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Love, Women, United)

"For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Love, Being, Pleasure)

"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Business, Body, Company, Conversation, Crowds, Mind, Present, Will)

"If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Love, Woman)

"I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people."
- John Astin
(Related: Love, People, Audiences, Play)

"Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Water)

"Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover."
- Tom Atkins
"Love is the victim's response to the rapist."
- Ti-Grace Atkinson
(Related: Love)

"I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27."
- Clement Atlee
(Related: Love, Food)

"Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Love, War, Performance, Cinema, Want)

"I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Love, People, Biography)

"My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything."
- Lee Atwater
(Related: Nature, Love, Truth, Brotherhood, Humanity, Illness, Relationships)

"I've always loved movies, art and clothes."
- Colleen Atwood
(Related: Art, Movies, Clothes)

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Love, Names, Snow)

"I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science."
- Rene Auberjonois
(Related: Love, Science, Fact, Fiction)

"I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people."
- Rene Auberjonois
(Related: People, Theater)

"I also have this incredible love for women."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Love, Women)

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Love, Water)

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Love, Language)

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Love)

"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Love)

"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Life, Family, Success, America, Names)

"I really fell in love with Africa."
- Jean M. Auel
(Related: Love)

"The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love."
- Red Auerbach
(Related: Love, Attention, Forget, Self, World)

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Beauty, Love, Soul)

"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Anger, Love, Fear, Jealousy, Quarrels)

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Love, Men, Eyes, Feet, Help, Misery, Poor, Want)

"Love is the beauty of the soul."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Beauty, Love, Soul)

"Love, and do what you like."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Love)

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: God)

"He that is jealous is not in love."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Love)

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Love, Privilege)

"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Men, Man, Opinions, Rest, Value)

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Change, Nature, Nothing, Universe)

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Love, Destiny)

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Love, People, Heart, Fate)

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Friendship, Love)

"An artist cannot do anything slovenly."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Artist)

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Imagination, Love, Admiration, Lady, Matrimony)

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Talk)

"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Love, Nothing, Suffering)

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Love, Man, World)

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Love, Dancing)

"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Admiration, Man, Woman)

"Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Love, Being, Now)

"It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
(Related: Love, Daughters, Gain, May, Sin, Will)

"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"
- Emanuel Ax
(Related: Love, Applause)

"Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Life, Love, Music, Health, People, Heart, Being, Gifts, Play)

"I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Love, Play)

"I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character."
- Dan Aykroyd
(Related: Love, Character, Clothes, Play, School, Trying)

"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."
- Sai Baba
(Related: Love, Energy, Healing, Help)

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it."
- Sai Baba
(Related: Life, Love, Sacrifice, Dream, Challenge, Play, Song)

"Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions."
- Sai Baba
(Related: Love, Life, Peace, Man, Past, State, World)

"Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people."
- Ibrahim Babangida
(Related: Change, Love, People, Character, Conviction, Freedom, Liberty, Nothing)

"A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy."
- Lauren Bacall
(Related: Illness, Man)

"Kids love rabbits... they just like them."
- John Bach
(Related: Love, Kids)

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
- Richard Bach
"True love stories never have endings."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Love)

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
- Richard Bach
(Related: Love, Friends, Want)

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Love)

"It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that."
- Sebastian Bach
(Related: Life, Love, Play)

"It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Love, Army, Kids, Want)

"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."
- Amitabh Bachchan
(Related: Age, Work, Actor, Media)

"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
- Gaston Bachelard
(Related: Imagination, Books, Literary, Writer)

"My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music."
- Randy Bachman
(Related: Music, Love, Country, Country music, Growing up)

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Love)

"I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Love, Now)

"Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Love, Actor)

"He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you."
- Jane Badler
(Related: Love, Environment, Feeling, Order, Right)

"I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared."
- Jane Badler
(Related: Time, Murder)

"Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love."
- Jane Badler
(Related: Love, Mission)

"I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property."
- Michael Badnarik
(Related: Life, Laws, Property, Right, states, United, Want)

"I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Love, Music, Fun)

"I love putting the music together. It's like art."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Art, Love, Music)

"I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Love, Life, Religion)

"From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Love, Applause, Energy, Giving, Want, World)

"That's all nonviolence is - organized love."
- Joan Baez
(Related: Love, Nonviolence)

"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."
- David Bailey
(Related: Wife, Man, Smiles)

"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
(Related: Love, Emotion, Job, Poor)

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Love, Work, Needs, World)

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Love, Joy, Needs, World)

"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Love, Ambition, Blessings, Earth, Man)

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Love, Truth, Poets)

"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Man, Military)

"Respect is what we owe; love, what we give."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Love, Respect)

"I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans."
- Oksana Baiul
(Related: Love, Care, Fans)

"Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Love)

"We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Love, God, People, Values, Boys, Chance, Drugs, Morals, Profanity, Respect, Will)

"It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who."
- Colin Baker
"I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have."
- Ginger Baker
(Related: Love, Music, Business)

"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains."
- Josephine Baker
(Related: Life, Love)

"I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate."
- Kenny Baker
(Related: Love, Europe, Years)

"The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes."
- Richard Baker
(Related: Music, May)

"I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!"
- Rick Baker
(Related: Love, People, Job)

"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
- Russell Baker
(Related: Company, Misery)

"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
- Russell Baker
(Related: Age, Love, Fashion)

"I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Love, Years)

"I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly."
- Scott Bakula
(Related: Business, Love, Work, People, Acting, Relationships)

"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: Morality, Dignity, Freedom)

"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: God, Humanity, Liberty, Respect)

"I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Time, Family, Acceptance, Growing up, Theory)

"My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Business, Dad, Successful, Baby, School, Writer)

"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Being)

"I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Love, Father, Sister, Chicago, Old)

"God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Love, Money, God)

"Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Love, Movies, Time, Day, Old, Theater)

"It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man."
- Adam Baldwin
(Related: Family, Love, People, Act, Fame, Fortune, Man)

"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, Soul, Possibility, Conquest, Question, Surrender)

"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, Glory, Spirit)

"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Possibility, Mystery)

"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, Americans, Disease, Fact, Homosexuality, Journey)

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, America, Country, Reason, Right, World)

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, Fear)

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, War, Battle, End, Growing up)

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, Heaven)

"You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people."
- Stephen Baldwin
(Related: Love, People)

"I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op."
- William Baldwin
(Related: Love, Celebrity)

"In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Love, Life, Wife, Belief)

"And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Love, Movies, Being, Entertainment)

"I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world."
- Fairuza Balk
(Related: Love, Feeling, Want, World)

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, First, World)

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Life, Man)

"I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Business, Will)

"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Religion, First)

"I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Work, Fact)

"How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Divorce, Lawyers, Mistakes, Profit)

"Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it."
- Hank Ballard
(Related: Love, Soul, Being)

"A toddler believes that if you love a person, you stay with that person 100 percent of the time."
- Lawrence Balter
(Related: Love, Time)

"To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Faith, Love, Nature, God)

"The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Love, Reality)

"Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Love, Time, History, God, Possibility, Appearance, Man)

"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Beauty, Religion, Absence, Man)

"If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Love, God, Being, Fact, Wishes, World)

"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Faith, Love, Unity)

"The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Love, God, Christian, Trinity, Unity)

"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
(Related: Love, Fact, Passion)

"The more one judges, the less one loves."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Judges)

"Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Ugly, Woman)

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Women, Credit, Nothing)

"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love)

"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Husband, Man)

"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Wisdom, Chivalry)

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Heart, Infinite)

"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: HusbDifference, Lady, Lies, Night)

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Man, Open, Sea, Woman)

"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: HusbFirst)

"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, May)

"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Love, Men, Constancy, Pain, Suffering, Woman)

"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Love, Hatred)

"Love is the poetry of the senses."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Poetry, Senses)

"Love is a game in which one always cheats."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love)

"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Love, Heart, Instinct, Nothing, Will)

"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Lovers, Nothing, Word)

"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Time, Complaint, First, First love, Man)

"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, End)

"It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Music, Time, Man, Needs, Play, Woman)

"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Time, HusbDay, Pretty, Reason, Witty)

"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Wisdom, Spirit)

"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Love, Women, First, Respect)

"I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is."
- Antonio Banderas
(Related: Humor, Love, America, Americans, Countries, Diversity, Sense)

"I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things."
- Antonio Banderas
(Related: Love)

"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."
- Albert Bandura
(Related: Family, Life, Quality, Negative, Job, Satisfaction)

"(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Car, Time, Thought, First)

"I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Love)

"I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone."
- Elizabeth Banks
(Related: Love, Comfort, Relationships, Zone)

"Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it."
- Ernie Banks
(Related: Life, Work, Day, Passion)

"I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do."
- George Linnaeus Banks
(Related: Love, Heaven)

"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
- Leslie Banks
(Related: Imagination, Love)

"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."
- Russell Banks
(Related: Love, People, Care, Want, Writers)

"I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Love, Thought, Control, Career, Paris, Style)

"Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Body, Problems)

"I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Love, Food, Want)

"I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Food, Love, Want)

"I love the confidence that makeup gives me."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Love, Confidence, Makeup)

"I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Ideas, Being, Meeting, Planning)

"If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Opportunity)

"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Intelligence, Work, Film, Humanity, Want)

"Love that is not madness is not love."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: Love, Madness)

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: World)

"When love is not madness, it is not love."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: Love, Madness)

"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."
- William Barclay
(Related: Love, Sacrifice, Christ, Responsibility)

"When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive."
- William Barclay
(Related: Life, Love, Company)

"If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Love, Impression, Man)

"I don't think when I make love."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Love)

"I have not always loved wisely, but I was young."
- Brigitte Bardot
"I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock."
- Travis Barker
(Related: Love, Music, Play, Punk, Style)

"I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit."
- Travis Barker
(Related: Love, Play)

"When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child."
- Ellen Barkin
(Related: Love, Mother, Baby)

"You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really."
- Ellen Barkin
(Related: Family, Love, Mother, Daughter, Choice, Cute)

"I love New York City; I've got a gun."
- Charles Barkley
(Related: Love)

"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Love, Hope, Worth)

"To love without criticism is to be betrayed."
- Djuna Barnes
(Related: Love, Criticism)

"The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections."
- Djuna Barnes
(Related: Love, Heart, Bed)

"The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Love, First, Sight)

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Love, Light, Meeting)

"Lovers should also have their days off."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Lovers)

"All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying."
- Richard Barnfield
(Related: Love, Faith, Heart, Dying)

"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."
- Amelia Barr
(Related: Love, Fate)

"But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung."
- Amelia Barr
(Related: Love, Power, World)

"We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved."
- Julia Barr
(Related: Family, Love, Eating, Friends, Will)

"I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around."
- Julia Barr
(Related: Husband)

"Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow."
- James M. Barrie
(Related: Love)

"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be."
- James M. Barrie
(Related: Man, Woman)

"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."
- James M. Barrie
(Related: Love, Praise)

"I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion."
- Fantasia Barrino
(Related: Love, Dress, Fashion, Play)

"He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter."
- Isaac Barrow
(Related: Friend, Want, Will)

"Love will make a way out of no way."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Love, Will)

"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Love)

"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Love, Time, Will)

"People in New York love having roof parties."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Love, People)

"I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Love, Thanksgiving)

"I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Love, Sports, Respect)

"I loved Australia. I was very successful there."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Successful)

"I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Love, Night)

"Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Love, Habit)

"I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Love, People, Hurt, Want)

"Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Butterflies, Ugly)

"A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?"
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Love, Fish, May)

"I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Love, Now, Shame)

"I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Love, Romance)

"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
- Ethel Barrymore
(Related: Love, Day)

"When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Boxing, Will)

"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Love, Meeting)

"Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Love, Now)

"Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate."
- Karl Barth
(Related: Change, Love, God, Hate, Man)

"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."
- Roland Barthes
(Related: Love, Language)

"A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Love, Money, People)

"I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Love, Nature, Body, Energy, Mountains, Sea, Singing)

"I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Love, Time, First)

"I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Love, Music, Composers)

"I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Love, Music, Composers, Opera)

"I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation."
- Georg Baselitz
(Related: Father, Fact, Painting)

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
- Saint Basil
(Related: Love, Friendship, Courtesy, Deed, Deeds, Kindness, Man, Plants)

"I love to be nervous before a scene."
- Kim Basinger
(Related: Love)

"I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience."
- Shirley Bassey
(Related: Love, Men)

"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."
- Georges Bataille
(Related: Love, Possibility)

"Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love."
- Georges Bataille
(Related: Life, Love, Ecstasy, Reality)

"I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me."
- Jason Bateman
(Related: Love)

"I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society."
- Alan Bates
(Related: Love, Society, Life, Thought, Sense, Trying)

"I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all."
- Alan Bates
(Related: Love, People)

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
- Katharine Lee Bates
(Related: Love, World)

"I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period."
- Kathy Bates
(Related: Time, Love, Character, Challenge, Empathy, Play)

"Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day."
- Lewis J. Bates
(Related: Love, Truth, Day, Right)

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive."
- Orlando A. Battista
(Related: Love, Weakness)

"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Love, Music, Trying)

"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Life, Women, Family, Sex, World)

"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Certainty, Delight, Evil, Lies)

"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Love, Dream, Baby, End, May)

"There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Love, People, Heart, Possibility, Pleasure)

"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Love, Future, Light, Shadow, World)

"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Love, Feelings, Courage, Affectation, Cowardice, Measure, Play)

"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Love, Infidelity, Language)

"A woman who is loved always has success."
- Vicki Baum
(Related: Success, Woman)

"I love doing concert music."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Love, Music)

"I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw."
- Meredith Baxter
(Related: Art, Love, Years)

"If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them."
- Richard Baxter
(Related: Love)

"Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor."
- Richard Baxter
(Related: Love)

"A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it."
- Michael Bay
(Related: Love, Pressure, Want)

"I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free."
- Michael Bay
(Related: Love, Movies)

"I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Love, Time)

"There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Time, Conversation, Sense, World)

"It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Love, Friendship, Negative, Film, Relationships, Talk)

"The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Love, Actors, Right)

"I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Love, Time, Gardening, Autumn, Plants, Trees)

"One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness."
- Miriam Beard
(Related: Beauty)

"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other."
- Ann Beattie
(Related: Love, Hollywood, Talk, Tea)

"It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings."
- Ann Beattie
(Related: Love)

"I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now."
- Ann Beattie
(Related: Love, Music, Thought, People, Culture, Dancing, Name, Now, Old, Songs, Summer, Years)

"No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife."
- James Beattie
(Related: Love, Wife, HusbDawn, Jealousy, Past)

"How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love."
- James Beattie
(Related: Love, Truth, Words)

"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."
- Pierre Beaumarchais
(Related: Love)

"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals."
- Pierre Beaumarchais
(Related: Love, Animals, Drinking, Seasons)

"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals."
- Pierre De Beaumarchais
(Related: Love, Time, Animals, Drinking)

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Death, Love, Fear, Man, Sleep)

"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Love, Will)

"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Melancholy, Nothing)

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Life, Friendship, Love, Compassion, Value)

"The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Love, Cause, Sense, Sexes, Word)

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Love, Truth, Comfort)

"Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: Love)

"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: Love)

"I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Boyfriend, Mail)

"In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs."
- Beck
(Related: Play)

"I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by."
- Beck
(Related: Life, Love)

"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Love, Accuracy, Blind, Wrong)

"I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Love, Winning, Losing, Play)

"Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Love, Girlfriend, First, First love, Girls, Tennis)

"How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?"
- Boris Becker
(Related: Love, Daughter, Word, Years)

"Do we mean love, when we say love?"
- Samuel Beckett
(Related: Love)

"If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love."
- Samuel Beckett
(Related: Love)

"I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing."
- David Beckham
(Related: Love, Football, Job)

"I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me."
- David Beckham
(Related: Love, Kids)

"I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country."
- David Beckham
(Related: Love, Goals, Country, England)

"I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15."
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: Love)

"It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him."
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: People, Charm, Losing, Open)

"I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."
- Max Beckmann
(Related: Love, Hate, Nothing, Painting, Reason, Sentimentality)

"I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective."
- Max Beckmann
(Related: Love, Painting, Reason)

"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
(Related: Dreams)

"He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor."
- Venerable Bede
(Related: Love)

"I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills."
- Kabir Bedi
(Related: Love, Acting, Theatre)

"The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes."
- Thomas Beecham
(Related: Love, Music, English, May)

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Love, Worship)

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Love, Heart, Deep, Light, Pretty)

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Friendship, Love)

"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Love, Parents)

"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Love, Heart, Indifference, Needs, Oil)

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Friendship, Love, Truth, Faults, Man, Tests, Words)

"Love is the river of life in the world."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Life, Love, World)

"I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan."
- James Van Der Beek
(Related: Love, Celebrity, Hollywood, Past, Walking)

"Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Hatred, Woman)

"It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America."
- Paul Begala
(Related: America, Popular, Republican)

"I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends."
- Paul Begala
(Related: Love, Bible, Friends, School, Vacation)

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Love, World)

"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Bible, Old)

"One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Age, Love, Living, Right, Worth)

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Love, Pleasure)

"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Age, Life, Worth)

"I love drums and still play frequently."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Love, Play)

"I love proving people wrong."
- Ed Belfour
(Related: Love, People, Wrong)

"But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Love, People, Fans)

"Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Love, End, Kids, Right, Want)

"We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?"
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Love, Computers, Race, Right, World)

"I love cold, rainy weather."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Love, Weather)

"I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!"
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Love, HusbBiking, EnglFavorite, Museums)

"I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Love)

"I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased."
- Chris Bell
(Related: Love, Talk)

"Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Love, Woman)

"I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?"
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Being, Old, School)

"I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Love, Act, Caring, Day, Deep, Friends, May)

"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Time, Animals, Cats, Dogs, Example, Taste)

"I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Love, Funny, Tomorrow)

"I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Women, Being, Right)

"I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Home, Love, Clothes, Day)

"I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Being, Fashion, Word)

"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Time, Animals, Cats, Dogs, Example, Taste)

"Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Love, Woman)

"I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Love, Funny, Tomorrow)

"I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?"
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Being, Old, School)

"I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Women, Being, Right)

"I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Home, Love, Clothes, Day)

"I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Being, Fashion, Word)

"I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Love, Act, Caring, Day, Deep, Friends, May)

"When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.""
- William Bell
(Related: First, Service, Writing)

"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Love, Winning, Beginning, First, Friends, Laughter, Nothing, Quiet, Worth)

"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Money, Time, Love, Pleasure)

"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Love, Countries)

"A man is only as good as what he loves."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Man)

"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Love, Men, Company, Goodness)

"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Love, Work, Marriage, Hate, Wrong)

"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Love, Work)

"We all need illusions. That's why we love movies."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Love, Movies)

"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Actor, Actors)

"I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Family)

"You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh."
- Pat Benatar
(Related: Love)

"Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child."
- Pat Benatar
(Related: Love, Eyes, Pain)

"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Love, Time, Discipline, Order, Solitude, Writing)

"Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace."
- Julien Benda
(Related: Love, Peace, War, Fear, Will)

"I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands."
- Brian M. Bendis
(Related: Love, People, Books, Fans, Meeting, Will)

"I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat."
- Stephen Vincent Benet
(Related: Love, American, Names)

"Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?""
- Annette Bening
(Related: Love, People, Fact, Now, Old, Right, Woman)

"I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky."
- Annette Bening
(Related: Home, Life, Love, Acting, Chaos, Children)

"I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff."
- Annette Bening
(Related: Work, People, Chance, Theater, World)

"And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.""
- Annette Bening
(Related: Love, Movies)

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Love, Hope)

"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Love, Happiness, Fear, Enthusiasm, Hate, Worry)

"Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it."
- Jill Bennett
(Related: Love, Art, Acting)

"Call no man foe, but never love a stranger."
- Stella Benson
(Related: Love, Man)

"Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors."
- Robert Benton
(Related: Love, Age, Colors, Murder, Mystery, Nothing, Relationships, Twilight)

"The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love."
- Julie Benz
(Related: Life, Love, Meaning)

"I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do."
- Julie Benz
(Related: Love)

"I loved playing Darla."
- Julie Benz
"The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving."
- Polly Berrien Berends
(Related: Love, Children, Discovery, Gain)

"I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy."
- Alban Berg
(Related: Love, Music, Friendship, Joy, Spiritual, World)

"Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film."
- Peter Berg
(Related: Truth, America, Film, Pretty, Voting)

"Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Dignity, Man, Pride, Self, Woman)

"Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Love, Sensuality, Sin)

"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Women, Being, Career)

"Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Love, Men, Independence, Waste, Woman)

"I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Love, Comedy)

"Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville."
- Edgar Bergen
(Related: Love, Movies, Church, Housekeeping, Television)

"The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud."
- Michael Bergin
(Related: Love, Fact, Parents)

"Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign."
- Michael Bergin
(Related: Thinking)

"I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends."
- Dennis Bergkamp
(Related: Love, Being, Football, Will)

"Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Love, Play, Woman, Years)

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Nature, Kiss, Speech, Words)

"The motive power of democracy is love."
- Henri Bergson
(Related: Love, Power, Democracy, Motive)

"You're not sick you're just in love."
- Irving Berlin
(Related: Love)

"Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love."
- Hector Berlioz
(Related: Love, Music, Idea, May)

"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Love, Comedy, Will)

"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Love, Work, Acting, First, First love)

"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Health, Love, Money, Old, Problems, Security)

"Hell, madam, is to love no longer."
- Georges Bernanos
(Related: Love, Hell)

"I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved."
- Sandra Bernhard
(Related: Love)

"I do love cricket - it's so very English."
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Love, Cricket, English)

"I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives."
- Corbin Bernsen
(Related: Love, People)

"The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings."
- Halle Berry
(Related: Love, People, May, Struggle, Will)

"I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment."
- Bernardo Bertolucci
(Related: Love, Movies, Hollywood, Moments, Now)

"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, Love, Care, Help, Right, Suffering, Trying)

"Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us."
- Bruno Bettelheim
(Related: Love, Children, Disappointment, Discouragement)

"Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis."
- Nuno Bettencourt
(Related: Love, Temple)

"The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave."
- Nuno Bettencourt
(Related: Love, Play, Want)

"If you love god, burn a church."
- Jello Biafra
(Related: Love, God, Church)

"My life's a wreck, and I love it."
- Bo Bice
(Related: Love, Life)

"You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection."
- Jessica Biel
(Related: Love, Business, Rejection)

"At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken."
- Jessica Biel
(Related: Love, Time, Blood)

"I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin."
- Jessica Biel
(Related: Love, Time, Being, Skin)

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Marriage, Insanity)

"Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Love, Quality, Knowledge)

"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Power, Beauty, Husband, Woman)

"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Love, Women)

"I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Love)

"I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: Love, Work, Opportunity)

"But the love of adventure was in father's blood."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Love, Father, Adventure, Blood)

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Love, Earth)

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Love, God, Help, May, Smile)

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Love, Envy)

"Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Love, Blind)

"I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions."
- Traci Bingham
(Related: Beauty, Love, Body, Night)

"I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Life, Love)

"What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Life, Love, Adventure)

"I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her."
- Juliette Binoche
"I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Love, Project)

"My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Love, Kids)

"Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Love)

"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore."
- Jane Birkin
(Related: Love, Now)

"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."
- Jane Birkin
(Related: Love, World)

"If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you."
- Jane Birkin
(Related: Love, People, Country)

"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
- Harrison Birtwistle
(Related: Music, Attitude, Sense)

"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?"
- Jim Bishop
(Related: Car, Love, Open, Parents, Patience, Treasure)

"I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Love, Time, Being, Garden)

"I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Love, Obsession)

"I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Beauty, Love, Art, Talent, Painting, Sense)

"I've always loved men."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Men)

"The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy."
- Bjork
(Related: People, Comedy, Country, Criticism, English)

"I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks."
- Bjork
(Related: Love, Life, EnglFirst)

"I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer."
- Bjork
(Related: Love, Being)

"My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives."
- James W. Black
(Related: Love, Music, Manager, Father, Singing)

"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Friendship, Brother, Years)

"I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed."
- Karen Black
(Related: Love, Bed, Books)

"I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts."
- Karen Black
(Related: Love, Women)

"I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week."
- Karen Black
(Related: Love, Computer)

"I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too."
- Honor Blackman
(Related: Love, Husband, Kids)

"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."
- Ritchie Blackmore
(Related: Play)

"I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it."
- Ritchie Blackmore
(Related: Love, Music, Thought, Play)

"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"
- Algernon H. Blackwood
(Related: Deed, Emotions, Evil, Moon)

"It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do."
- Joan Blades
(Related: Love, Time, Children, Focus, Nation, Parents, Right)

"The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things."
- Bonnie Blair
(Related: Love, World)

"I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough."
- Tony Blair
"I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry."
- Steve Blake
(Related: Love, Friends, Scotland)

"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
- William Blake
(Related: Love, Energy, Existence, Hate, Reason)

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."
- William Blake
(Related: God, Love, Mercy, Pity)

"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."
- William Blake
(Related: Happiness, Love, Fun, Mirth)

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
- William Blake
(Related: Love, Time, Eternity)

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
- William Blake
(Related: Love, Care, Despair, Heaven, Hell)

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
- William Blake
(Related: Infinite)

"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."
- William Blake
(Related: Love)

"I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me."
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: Love, Life)

"Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud."
- Maurice Blanchot
(Related: Music, People, Lovers, Painting)

"Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it."
- Ray Blanton
(Related: Love, Honesty)

"Because I love football and I love the footballers."
- Sepp Blatter
(Related: Love, Football)

"To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love."
- Alan Bleasdale
(Related: Love, Age, Heart, Body, Exercise, Frigidity, Mind, Old, Study)

"I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Love)

"I love a man who can wear my underwear."
- Yasmine Bleeth
(Related: Love, Man)

"This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time."
- Yasmine Bleeth
(Related: Love, Time, Credit, Eating)

"I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Love, Lies, London, Secrets, Theater)

"Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic."
- Brenda Blethyn
"I love silence."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Love, Silence)

"Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them."
- Corbin Bleu
(Related: Love, Thoughts, Difference, Reading, Spirits)

"I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it."
- Corbin Bleu
(Related: Love, Competition, Losing)

"I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes."
- Corbin Bleu
(Related: Eyes, Girls, Smile)

"Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems."
- Harold Bloom
(Related: Love, Adolescence, Criticism, Passion, Poems, Reading)

"I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Actor)

"I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Movies)

"I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Girlfriends, Romantic)

"The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?"
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Movies, Truth, Action, Man)

"When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Women, Thinking)

"The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Adventure, Being)

"When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Truth, Acting, Play, Project, Want)

"When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Time, First, Kids, Parents, Will)

"We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Love, Liberty, Population, Spirit, World)

"Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him."
- Ella R. Bloor
(Related: Love, Nature)

"I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats."
- Ella R. Bloor
(Related: People, Boats, Faces)

"I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Love)

"The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Love, Religion, Christian)

"For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Being, Will)

"We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd."
- Heston Blumenthal
(Related: Money, Thought, Eating, France)

"I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch."
- David Blunkett
(Related: Love, Life, People, Chance, Security, Walking)

"My life is brillant, My love is pure."
- James Blunt
(Related: Life, Love)

"With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Love, Movies, Will, World)

"We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Love, Potential, Space)

"Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Love, Children)

"The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness."
- Robert Bly
(Related: Love, Beginning, Horror)

"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."
- Giovanni Boccaccio
(Related: Earth, Enjoyment, Heaven, Lovers)

"Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better."
- Andrea Bocelli
(Related: Love, Friends, School)

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
- Tom Bodett
(Related: Love, Hope, Needs)

"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law."
- Boethius
(Related: Love, Law, Lovers)

"I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me."
- Humphrey Bogart
"I've always loved to sing."
- Suzy Bogguss
"I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with."
- Suzy Bogguss
(Related: Love, Home, Play)

"I love playing other people's work. I love acting."
- Eric Bogosian
(Related: Love, Work, People, Acting)

"The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision."
- David Boies
(Related: Love, Decision, Purpose, Constitution, Court, Decisions, Rights, Legislation, Majority, Minority, Past)

"Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers."
- Brigitte Boisselier
(Related: Love, Freedom, Lovers)

"When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew."
- Arrigo Boito
(Related: Love)

"I love my family."
- Manute Bol
(Related: Family, Love)

"I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself."
- Michael Bolton
(Related: Love, Singing)

"You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it."
- Michael Bolton
(Related: Love)

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Love, Courage, Hope)

"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Love, Ability, Consciousness, Space)

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Love, Power, Artist)

"Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover."
- Giotto di Bondone
(Related: Dreams, Feelings, Heart, Pleasure, Principles)

"Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Love, Religion, God, Bible, Connection, Parents)

"I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Art, Beauty, Love, Building, Career, Desire, Film)

"That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Love, Daughter, People, Choice)

"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: God, Love, Truth, Envy, Hatred, Judges, Satan)

"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Love, Truth, Nothing)

"I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Friends)

"Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one."
- Mary Bono
(Related: Americans)

"We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat."
- Sonny Bono
(Related: Love, People, Environment)

"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
(Related: Love, America, Echo, Nation, Now)

"When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart."
- Edwin Booth
(Related: Love, Heart, Value, Will)

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
- Jorge Luis Borges
(Related: Love, Religion, God)

"Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career."
- Alexander Borodin
(Related: Love, Music, People, Career)

"Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime."
- George Borrow
(Related: Love, God, Country, Crime)

"I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor."
- Amar Bose
(Related: Music, Poor, Sound)

"I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project."
- Tom Bosley
(Related: Love, Father, Mind, Project)

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
- James Boswell
(Related: Love, Winning, Friends, Laughter, Nothing, Worth)

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
- James Boswell
(Related: Friend, Man, May)

"I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed."
- Alain de Botton
(Related: Love, Marriage, Society, Sex)

"I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel."
- Alain de Botton
(Related: Love, Fiction, Writing)

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."
- Nadia Boulanger
(Related: Love, Choice, Passion)

"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."
- Nadia Boulanger
(Related: Love, Giving)

"The secret of art is love."
- Antoine Bourdelle
(Related: Art, Love)

"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Worship)

"In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Love, Successful, Ambition, Merit)

"Our first and last love is self-love."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Love, First, Self)

"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Hope, Pity, Selfishness)

"The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Feeling, Self)

"When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Love, Wishes)

"I've loved doing "E.R." for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with."
- Julie Bowen
(Related: Work, Quality, People, Writing)

"I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Love, Books, Old, Open)

"I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again."
- Muriel Box
(Related: Love, Being, Hate, Want)

"For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Love, War, Truth, Troops)

"I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Love, March, Security, Washington)

"I just always had a love for television and movies."
- Bruce Boxleitner
(Related: Love, Movies, Television)

"I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion."
- Bruce Boxleitner
(Related: Love, Fashion)

"I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend."
- Bruce Boxleitner
"If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours."
- Belle Boyd
(Related: Government, Love, Lie, Cause, Crime, President, Prison)

"A true woman always loves a real soldier."
- Belle Boyd
(Related: Woman)

"I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal."
- Brandon Boyd
(Related: Love)

"More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding."
- Paul D. Boyer
(Related: Love, Father, Discipline, Honesty, Compassion, Example, Understanding, Word)

"I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them."
- Danny Boyle
(Related: Love, Movies, Being)

"I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Life, Love, Men, Children, Rest)

"I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Love)

"I love receiving fan mail."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Love, Mail)

"I love talking about myself."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Love, Talking)

"Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Humor, Sense)

"Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens."
- Susan Boyle
(Related: Love, Dream, Queen, Royalty, Singing, Variety, Will)

"Her I love. You I don't even like."
- Leigh Brackett
(Related: Love)

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
- Ray Bradbury
(Related: Love, Key, Word)

"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it."
- Ray Bradbury
(Related: Love, People, Reason)

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."
- Ray Bradbury
(Related: Love, Idea, Writing)

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
- Ray Bradbury
(Related: Love, Time, Business, Friendship, Intellect, Nonsense)

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it."
- Ray Bradbury
(Related: Love, Work, Hard work, Practice, Want)

"When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach."
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
(Related: Love)

"For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Love, Time, Hate, Leaders)

"I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Love, Paris)

"My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
(Related: Love, Husband, Reason)

"I could talk food all day. I love good food."
- Tom Brady
(Related: Food, Love, Day, Talk)

"It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Love, People, Moments, Relationships, Support)

"A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Love, Feelings, First)

"Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Love, Being)

"I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Love, Being, Children, Feeling, Respect, Want)

"I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly "Scrubs" guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it."
- Zach Braff
(Related: Love, Life, Silly, Want)

"If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me."
- Sonia Braga
(Related: Love, Money, Deep, Houses, Kids, Questions)

"But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: Love, Country, End, Now, Play, Song, Songs, Wind)

"So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: Love, Time, Songs)

"Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Love, Being, Desire, Longing, Respect)

"I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to."
- Stan Brakhage
(Related: Love, Being)

"It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Love, People)

"I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that."
- Michelle Branch
(Related: Love, Theater, Want)

"I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad."
- Michelle Branch
(Related: Home, Love, Animals, Bed, Being, Cats, Job, Now, Road)

"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him."
- Nathaniel Branden
(Related: Love, Desire, Man, Will, Woman)

"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Love, Compassion, Humanity, Lying, World)

"I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given."
- Jonathan Brandis
(Related: Love)

"I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Family, Life, Love)

"Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Love, People, Idea, Competition, Fun)

"I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Life, Love, Freedom)

"I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison."
- Benjamin Bratt
(Related: Love, Work, Wife, Daughter)

"For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy."
- Andre Braugher
(Related: Love, Labor, Listening, March, Workers)

"He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?"
- Eva Braun
(Related: Love, Months, Word)

"When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?"
- Eva Braun
(Related: Promises)

"I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me."
- Eva Braun
(Related: Fault, Will)

"I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs."
- Toni Braxton
(Related: Love, Songs)

"To do what you love can sometimes be stressful."
- Toni Braxton
(Related: Love)

"What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough."
- Bertolt Brecht
(Related: Life, Living)

"War is like love; it always finds a way."
- Bertolt Brecht
(Related: War, Love)

"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."
- Craig Breedlove
(Related: Failure)

"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Love, Brothers)

"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Money, Love, Poor, World)

"Words make love with one another."
- Andre Breton
(Related: Love, Words)

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself."
- Andre Breton
(Related: Love)

"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."
- Andre Breton
(Related: Love, State)

"I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story."
- George Brett
(Related: Love, Baseball, Books)

"I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked."
- Fanny Brice
(Related: Men)

"But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself."
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Love, Music)

"I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!"
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Love, Kids)

"I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that."
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Family, Love)

"What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it."
- Jeff Bridges
(Related: Work, Father, People)

"I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific."
- Jeff Bridges
(Related: Love, Marriage, Comedy, Tragedy)

"So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change."
- Robert Bridges
(Related: Change, Love, Thought, April, First)

"When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master."
- Robert Bridges
(Related: Love, First)

"I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!"
- Richard Briers
(Related: Funny, Love, Character)

"Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's."
- Joe Bob Briggs
(Related: Love, Hate)

"People who love science fiction really do love sex."
- Susie Bright
(Related: Love, Science, Sex, People, Fiction)

"I love turning my daughter on to old movies."
- Susie Bright
(Related: Love, Movies, Daughter, Old)

"Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good."
- Susie Bright
(Related: Sex, Familiarity)

"I have a love-hate relationship with performing."
- Sarah Brightman
(Related: Love)

"I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful."
- Sarah Brightman
(Related: Love, Challenge, Years)

"I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: Love, Athletes)

"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: Love, People, Boston, Chicago, Fact, Land)

"I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Love, Man, Post, Stress, Suffering)

"I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Love)

"I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Love, Devil)

"I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better."
- Eric Bristow
(Related: Love)

"It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune."
- Eric Bristow
(Related: Cure, Fortune, Now, Right, Years)

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."
- Benjamin Britten
(Related: Beauty, Music, Nature, Love, Strength, Disappointment, Freedom, Loneliness)

"These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more."
- Benjamin Britten
(Related: Love, Mystery)

"Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves."
- Hermann Broch
(Related: Information, Man, Wishes)

"Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out."
- Matthew Broderick
(Related: Love, Baby, Now, Visit)

"Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry."
- Kimberly Lynn Brodsky
(Related: Love, Smile, Want)

"Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with."
- James Brolin
(Related: Love)

"'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet."
- Alexander Brome
(Related: Love, Debt)

"I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year."
- Alexander Brome
(Related: Love, Debt)

"She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Father, People, Cats, Children, Dogs, Poor)

"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Love)

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Love, Friendship)

"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Friendship, Love, Holly, Will)

"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."
- Rupert Brooke
(Related: Love)

"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."
- Rupert Brooke
(Related: Sun)

"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Friendship, Love, Strategy)

"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Love, People, Being, Public)

"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Love, Beginning, Impossibility, May, Romantic, Sadness)

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Love, People, Strategy, Pilgrimage)

"I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Love, People, Being, Play)

"I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Business, Love, Want)

"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Love, Body, Man, Right, Sky, Water, World)

"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Love, Idea, Comedy, Romantic)

"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Life, Love, Fear)

"The best proof of love is trust."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Love, Trust, Proof)

"Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Love, Women, Man, Virginity, Want)

"No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Love, First, Woman)

"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Love, Manipulation)

"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Love, Being, Hurt, Risk, Will)

"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."
- James Broughton
(Related: Poetry, Poets, University, World)

"If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life."
- James Broughton
(Related: Life, Love)

"My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it."
- James Broughton
(Related: Love, Life, Necessity, Poems, Reality)

"Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater."
- James Broughton
(Related: Movies, Dance, Drama, Theater)

"The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts."
- Heywood Broun
(Related: Love, Ability)

"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Love, Time, Cancer, Man, Physics, Understanding, Will)

"Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Love, Fact, Years)

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
- A. Whitney Brown
(Related: Love, Animals, Hate, Plants)

"I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean."
- Alton Brown
(Related: Love, People, Problems, Sound)

"I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor."
- Alton Brown
(Related: Humor, Love, Fun, Sense)

"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
- Chester Brown
(Related: Legal, People, Hurt, Right)

"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Life, Love, Basketball, Day, Ego, End, Games, Job)

"Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Life, Love, Being, Thinking)

"I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!"
- Chris Brown
(Related: Love, Dance, Attention, Girls)

"I love sneakers on a girl. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style - a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she's wearing and works what she's got."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Love, Style)

"You can't find the sound if you just love sleep."
- Dennis Brown
(Related: Love, Sleep, Sound)

"Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it."
- Dennis Brown
(Related: God, Love)

"Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write."
- Dennis Brown
(Related: Love, Hearing, Song, Songs)

"I sing a lot about love."
- Dennis Brown
(Related: Love)

"Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had."
- James Brown
(Related: Love, Christ, Respect)

"I loved the game. We played because we loved it."
- Jim Brown
"I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here."
- Jonathan Brown
(Related: Love, Money, Day, End, Job, Satisfaction)

"I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people."
- Larry Brown
(Related: People, Press, Sense)

"And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free."
- Lew Brown
(Related: Life, Love)

"Love without attachment is light."
- Norman O. Brown
(Related: Love, Light)

"I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time."
- Ray Brown
(Related: Love, Time, Months, Old, Song, Will)

"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Love, Power, Revolution)

"Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Love, Women, Sex, Lesbian)

"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Love, People)

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Life, Love, People, Will)

"We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT."
- Steve Brown
(Related: Love, World)

"I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting."
- Tina Brown
(Related: Love)

"I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies."
- Vanessa Brown
(Related: Love, Movies, Music, War, Film)

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Happiness, Love)

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Forgiveness, Love, Forget, Prayer)

"I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up."
- Jackson Browne
(Related: Love, Music, Lie, Books, Will)

"So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life."
- Jackson Browne
(Related: Life, Love, People, Living, Play, Songs)

"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Love)

"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Life, Idea)

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Love, Cruelty, Pain, World)

"Who so loves believes the impossible."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Love, Soul)

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Love)

"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Death, Love, God, Smiles, Tears)

"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."
- Kurt Browning
(Related: Fun, Preparation, Pressure)

"Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!"
- Robert Browning
(Related: Time)

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Love)

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Love, Earth)

"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Love)

"Love is energy of life."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Life, Love, Energy)

"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."
- Anatole Broyard
(Related: Love, American, Literature, Nostalgia, Paradoxes, Writers)

"Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love."
- Jack Bruce
(Related: Love, First, First love)

"There are never enough I Love You's."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Love)

"In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process."
- Jerry Bruckheimer
(Related: Love)

"Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD."
- Jerry Bruckheimer
(Related: Love, Movies)

"I love entertaining people and this is entertainment."
- Jerry Bruckheimer
(Related: Love, People, Entertainment)

"I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works."
- Jerry Bruckheimer
(Related: Love, World)

"I love to smile."
- Inge de Bruijn
(Related: Love, Smile)

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Love, Embarrassment)

"One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched."
- Jean de la Bruyere
"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Love, Voice, Woman)

"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Love, Dawn)

"Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Friendship, Love, Time)

"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: People, Dream)

"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Love, Beginning, End, Lovers)

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Happiness, Life, Absence, Grief)

"Love and friendship exclude each other."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Friendship, Love)

"Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared."
- William Jennings Bryan
(Related: Flags, Weight)

"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."
- William C. Bryant
(Related: Earth)

"To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language."
- William C. Bryant
(Related: Love, Nature, Language)

"I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger."
- John Buchanan
(Related: Anger, Love, Family)

"You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Love, Women, Lie)

"How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?"
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Love, Women)

"Love is a peculiar thing."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Love)

"One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Love, Humanity, Order, Ugly)

"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Love, Kiss, Kissing, Mothers)

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Change, Love, Marriage, Growth)

"Love alone could waken love."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Love)

"Love dies only when growth stops."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Love, Growth)

"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
(Related: Love, Money, People, Strength, Trying)

"You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning."
- Young Buck
(Related: Life, Beginning)

"Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17."
- Lindsey Buckingham
(Related: Love, Deep, Years)

"My two great loves are music and horses."
- Betty Buckley
(Related: Music, Horses)

"I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs."
- Betty Buckley
(Related: Love, Favorite, Songs)

"Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know."
- Jeff Buckley
(Related: Love, Mind, Wrong)

"We love your adherence to democratic principles."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Related: Love, Principles)

"I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops."
- Zola Budd
(Related: Home, Love, Cows, Tea)

"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good."
- Buddha
(Related: Virtue)

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
- Buddha
(Related: Love, Affection, Universe)

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
- Buddha
(Related: Love, Affection, Universe)

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."
- Buddha
(Related: Love, Hatred)

"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes."
- Buddha
(Related: People)

"Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting."
- Eustace Budgell
(Related: Love, Friendship, First, Principles)

"And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else."
- Jimmy Buffett
(Related: Love)

"Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies."
- Jimmy Buffett
(Related: Hippies, Man)

"If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Love, America, Party, Republican)

"It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Conservative, Country)

"I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive."
- Genevieve Bujold
(Related: Love)

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Love, Being)

"Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns."
- Thomas Bulfinch
(Related: Religion, Love, Ambition, Influence, Loyalty, Order, Religious, United)

"People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!"
- Deborah Bull
(Related: Love, People, Performance, Acting)

"Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them."
- Sitting Bull
(Related: Love, Disease, Mind, Possessions)

"The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love."
- Sitting Bull
(Related: Love, Earth, Results, Sun)

"Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?"
- Sitting Bull
(Related: Love, Father, People, Country, Skin, Wrong)

"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"
- Sitting Bull
(Related: Earth, Friends, Results, Spring, Sun)

"I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Love, Day, Summer, Theater)

"I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Love, People, Fire)

"Everyone does things for love."
- Sandra Bullock
(Related: Love)

"Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person."
- Sandra Bullock
(Related: Love, Heart)

"There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that."
- Sandra Bullock
(Related: Love, Beer)

"I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff."
- Sandra Bullock
(Related: Love, Right)

"It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves."
- John Bulwer
"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Love)

"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Life, Love, Feeling)

"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Faults)

"America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: Love, America, Promises)

"I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Life, Love, Man, Sharing)

"I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Life, Animals, Cause, Dogs, Horses, World)

"I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!"
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Love, Feeling, Want)

"I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy."
- Emma Bunton
(Related: Love, Sports)