Love Quotes

It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.
– Christopher Isherwood
It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.
– Allen Iverson
Going on the radio is like talking to a nice girl you know; you think of perfect things to say and things to talk about but you can't premeditate love or the media.
– Alex James
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
– Gerald Jampolsky
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
– Leos Janacek
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word queer is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
– Derek Jarman
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
– Ferguson Jenkins
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
– Douglas William Jerrold
We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.
– Douglas William Jerrold
The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love.
– Brian Jett
LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.
– Scarlett Johansson
The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.
– Harry G. Johnson
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
– Boris Johnson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, a circle of creation is completed inside us. The doors of our soul open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
– Anne Jones
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
– Franz Kafka
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
– Louis Kahn
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
– Garson Kanin
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
– Donna Karan
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
– Alphonse Karr
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
– Alphonse Karr
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
– John Keats
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
– John Keats
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, is - Lover, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.
– John Keats
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
– John Keats
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
– Thomas a Kempis
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
– Jackie Kennedy
Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
– Jackie Kennedy
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
– Jackie Kennedy
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
– Jackie Kennedy
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
– Rose Kennedy
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
– Rose Kennedy
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
– Jean Kerr
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
– Ellen Key
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
– John Maynard Keynes
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.
– Nicole Kidman
I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.
– Lil' Kim
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
– Alan King
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
America is the greatest country in the world-I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.
– Don King
I love that I wrote with all kinds of different people.
– Carole King
A cello's soul is the resonance that makes it unique: how it was made, when it was made, who's played it. Mine may be who my parents were, what I know about life, who I love and have loved. All that makes my bones resonate. If a director is fortunate enough to tap into that, it's an endless well of information.
– Ben Kingsley
But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
– Ben Kingsley
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
– Ben Kingsley
I love creatures in their pure form.
– Ben Kingsley
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
– Ben Kingsley
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
– Ben Kingsley
There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of different nationalities because a different national temperament and a different rhythm and a different way of looking at things is enlightening to work with.
– Ben Kingsley
There's probably a young director, male or female, out there somewhere, I don't even know their names, but maybe I'm destined to work with them, and we'll have an extraordinary relationship. I would love to work with Claire Denis because I think she's extraordinary.
– Ben Kingsley
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.
– Rudyard Kipling
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
– Rudyard Kipling
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
– Rudyard Kipling
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
– Edward Koch
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
– Jeff Koons
I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.
– Anna Kournikova
The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.
– Anna Kournikova
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
– Karl Kraus
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
– Ray Kroc
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
– Ray Kroc
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
– Islom Karimov
I said to the wife, Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one. And she said, I'll bet it's that stuck-up Phyllis at number 23.
– Max Kauffmann
You are what you love. Not what loves you.
– Charlie Kaufman
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
– Alfred Kazin
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
– Bil Keane
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
– Sam Keen
The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.
– James Keller
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
– Caroline Kennedy
Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be.
– Ann Kent
I think men are supposed to be boys always. They just go through different stages and if wives understand that they can love them.
– Teresa Heinz Kerry
Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.
– Wilson Bryan Key
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
– Aga Khan III
I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
– Laura Kightlinger
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.
– Jewel Kilcher
I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
– Jean-Claude Killy
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more & all good things are yours.
– Dexter Scott King
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
– Galway Kinnell
To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
– Lane Kirkland
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
– Melanie Klein
It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.
– Melanie Klein
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
– Melanie Klein
I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers.
– Kevin Kline
Pure love produces pure nonsense.
– Jonathan Klinger
I believe in love that's fun,that is caring,giving,and that is honest.
– Jordan Knight
History was always my favorite subject anyway, and I love reading, kind of, biographies and that sort of stuff.
– Keira Knightley
The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
– Beyonce Knowles
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
– Kay Knudsen
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
– Dean Koontz
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
– Dean Koontz
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
– Dean Koontz
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
– Dean Koontz
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
– Olga Korbut