Love Quotes

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
– Peter Porter
I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
– Natalie Portman
I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
– Natalie Portman
I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk moustaches, they're my heroes.
– Natalie Portman
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
– Natalie Portman
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
– Anthony Powell
What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
– Susan Powter
You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.
– Susan Powter
I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.
– Elvis Presley
Anything my father did for me or gave me was done out of love. I'm sure I had moments when I was a snot. But my mom was there to smack me back to the other side.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.
– Lisa Marie Presley
It hasn't happened very often that I've actually given my heart. Sometimes I can be completely smitten, but I'll still keep it back at arm's length. Because if I do give it to someone and I get hurt, it's tragic. It incapacitates me. I have to be really careful of that. But that's not to say I would be opposed to falling in love with somebody.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
– Richard Price
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
– Marcel Proust
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
– Marcel Proust
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
– Sara Paddison
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
– Ivan Panin
I don't know why they hate me... one journalist once wrote that people either love or hate Vanessa Paradis.
– Vanessa Paradis
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
– Mary Parrish
I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
– Alexander Payne
For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
All I need is a little love now and then, but some chocolate will do for now.
– Lucy Van Pelt
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
– S. J. Perelman
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
– Tony Perez
Thoughts that I ask others several upon several, still feeling spirits upon spirits with the few moments of love, comfort, unity, & compassion all in a few seconds the holding of each other. The hole that is missing is slowly filled with happiness, joy, good or bad times.
– Brian Perkins
Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?
– Brian Perkins
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think they'll hate you.
– Donald Robert Perry
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
– Oscar Peterson
I am the same as I always will be. I'm French and I'm American. I was born in Canada. I love living in America, and I love playing the French Open in front of my French people, who support me.
– Mary Pierce
I'm very sensible and emotional, before it was too personal, when the crowd was cheering me or not it meaned that they loved me or love me not. It was very important for me that French crowd love me. When they were whistling at me and cheering the other girl, it was hurting me so much.
– Mary Pierce
I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.'
– Franka Potente
I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.
– Franka Potente
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
– David Pratt
Trust is the first step to love.
– Munshi Premchand
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
– Japanese Proverb
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
– Philip Pullman
My father grew up in Brooklyn, but he fell in love with the Adirondacks when he went there for summer camp. So after medical school in Rochester, New York, he drove south until he found a city in which to practice - Hornell, in New York State's southern tier.
– Bill Pullman
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
– Dennis Quaid
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
– Francis Quarles
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
– Dan Quayle
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
– Thomas de Quincey
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
– John Randolph
Love, in the true sense, is not always a matter of giving way, being soft, and just acting nice. In that sense, a sugar-coated Jesus or a God who agrees to everything and is never anything but nice and friendly is no more than a caricature of real love. Because God loves us, because he wants us to grow into truth, he must necessarily make demands on us and must also correct us.
– Joseph Ratzinger
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
– Joseph Ratzinger
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
– Maurice Ravel
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
– John Rawls
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
– John Ray
I don't like the typical good-looking guy. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I like guys with love handles. When he doesn't care 100 percent about his body, I don't have to obsess about mine. I hate a washboard stomach-does not turn me on.
– Tara Reid
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
– Jules Renard
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
– Jules Renard
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
– Agnes Repplier
Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.
– Denise Richards
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
– Lionel Richie
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
– Jean Paul Richter
According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
– Bob Riley
I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.
– Bob Riley
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
– Arthur Rimbaud
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
– Arthur Rimbaud
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
– Diego Rivera
Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
– Joan Rivers
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
– Tom Robbins
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
– Anthony Robbins
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
– Tim Robbins
I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
– Julia Roberts
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
– Julia Roberts
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
– Frederick William Robertson
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
– Frederick William Robertson
To recognize with delight all high and generous and beautiful actions; to find a joy even in seeing the good qualities of your bitterest opponents, and to admire those qualities even in those with whom you have least sympathy, this is the only spirit which can heal the love of slander and of calumny.
– Frederick William Robertson
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
– Maximilien Robespierre
Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.
– Edwin A. Robinson
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
– Chris Rock
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
– Nelson Rockefeller
I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.
– Norman Rockwell
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
– Robert Rodriguez
Do you remember that woman from Batteries Not Included, and Driving Miss Daisy? What's her name? Jessica Tandy. Idol. I love that woman. Her bio totally made me cry. That's dedication and that's passion. She's amazing, and I love her for everything she's done.
– Michelle Rodriguez
I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.
– Michelle Rodriguez
I love Margaret Cho. I recommend anybody to go see her stuff. She's real, and she's out there. And we need that. We need that reality check, because people have become so superficial and plastic that everything is superficial and plastic. You can do whatever the hell you want... just be raw, and be beautiful, and be passionate.
– Michelle Rodriguez
I thought surfers were corny, aimless people, and when I got to Hawaii, I discovered that they were spiritual, beautiful people who at times risked their lives for the love of sport.
– Michelle Rodriguez
I've been doing lots of hard-core chick, kick-ass things. The action is appealing because I haven't found the mental challenge in the dramatic roles that I've been shown. I don't want to be the girl who just falls in love.
– Michelle Rodriguez
Jersey is my hometown, and I love it. I'll probably have houses in other places, but that's my home, and nobody's kicking me out of there.
– Michelle Rodriguez
I do not know whether it is my lawyer's love of the first amendment, whether it is my ownership of multiple outlets for news broadcasting or whether I just abhor secrecy, but whatever the reason, I support openness of government for that openness is paramount to the success of democracy.
– James E. Rogers
I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.
– John Romero
I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.
– Linda Ronstadt
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.
– Stephen Root
The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.
– Don Rose
They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
– Diana Ross
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
– Jean Rostand
A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.
– Tim Roth
I love Charleston. That was one of the best experiences I have had making a film. I'm back to Carolina to do my next film.
– Tim Roth
I'd like to work with Danny Boyle, I think he'd be great to work with. Abel Ferrara I'd like to work with. Jim Jarmusch. If Werner Hertzog does another film, I'd like to work with him. And James Gray, too, I'd love to work with him again, I think he's incredible.
– Tim Roth
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
– Helen Rowland