Love Quotes

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
– Helen Rowland
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
– Helen Rowland
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
– Helen Rowland
What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
– Helen Rowland
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
– Rita Rudner
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
– Jane Rule
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.
– Jane Rule
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
– John Ruskin
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
– John Ruskin
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
– Bertrand Russell
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
– Bertrand Russell
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
– Bertrand Russell
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
– Bertrand Russell
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
– Bertrand Russell
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
– Bill Russell
I'd love some dirty fan mail! The ruder the better! Make sure you write that! My mum and Dunc's mum look after the fan club, so they probably check our letters!
– Lee Ryan
I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too.
– Lee Ryan
My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!
– Lee Ryan
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreicate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as this is all there is.
– Mary Anne Radmacher
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
– Carl Rakosi
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
– Aron Ralston
If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
– Sally Rand
Fathers and Mothers! Honor your children and love them.
– Otto Rank
You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.
– Prem Rawat
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
– Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.
– Jimmy Reed
I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.
– Keanu Reeves
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
– Wilhelm Reich
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
– Mary Renault
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.
– Jean Reno
You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.
– Ving Rhames
Oh, I love bios! I wouldn't say traditionally it was a concept album. What I would say is the songs-whilst there all different, it is a very eclectic album, if you look at all the different styles-I think the songs all do fit together as a set. It's probably the most complete album we've made for many years.
– Nick Rhodes
I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.
– Busta Rhymes
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
– Christina Ricci
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.
– Christina Ricci
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
– Mary Caroline Richards
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
– Mary Caroline Richards
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
– Cardinal Richelieu
We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.
– Andy Richter
Just a wee cot - the crickets chirr - love and the smiling face of her.
– James Whitcomb Riley
A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
– Mary Roberts Rinehart
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
– Mary Roberts Rinehart
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
– Robert J. Ringer
I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.
– Rene Rivkin
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
– Nora Roberts
Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.
– Andy Roddick
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
– Theodore Roethke
When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.
– Ginger Rogers
Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
– Johnny Rotten
The desire for the creation to exist - not for a return on investment, not for what it may say about you, but for the love of the thing, the creation, itself. One creates music because we love it enough to make it happen. The reason you would create anything is because you love it enough to see it exist.
– James Rouse
I love a guy that can be emotional and get in touch with his feminine side. It's really sweet. It says a lot about a man to me.
– Kelly Rowland
I absolutely love Bela Lugosi's Count. One thing that is always interesting to bear in mind in the grand history of Dracula, I think that almost without exception their releases have been surrounded by controversy.
– Richard Roxburgh
I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all.
– Richard Roxburgh
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
– Arthur Rubinstein
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
– Juan Ruiz
Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.
– Keri Russell
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
– Cornelius Tacitus
We live in the world when we love it.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?
– Sharon Tate
I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.
– Paul Taylor
As I sat one night by the kitchen fire, the Spirit of the Lord came on me and I found myself suddenly weeping aloud and confessing my sins to God in detail, as I could recall them, and begged him for Jesus's sake to forgive them, with all I could not remember; and I found myself trusting in Jesus that it would all be so, and in a few minutes my heart was filled with peace and love, not the shadow of a doubt remaining.
– William Taylor
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
– Mother Teresa
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
– Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
– Mother Teresa
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
– Mother Teresa
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?
– Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
– Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
– Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
– Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
– Mother Teresa
It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
– Mother Teresa
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
– Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
– Mother Teresa
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
– Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
– Mother Teresa
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
– Mother Teresa
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
– Mother Teresa
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
– Mother Teresa
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
– Mother Teresa
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
– Mother Teresa
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
– Valentina Tereshkova
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
– Ellen Terry
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
– Paul Theroux
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
– Dylan Thomas
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
– Cal Thomas
Squeezing our money out of politicians is more difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, they never let it go.
– Cal Thomas
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
– Henry David Thoreau
I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
– Billy Bob Thornton
Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
– Uma Thurman
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
– Uma Thurman
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!
– Paul Tillich
There is no love which does not become help.
– Paul Tillich
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
– Alexis de Tocqueville