Love Quotes

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
– Connie Britton
There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.
– Olivia Thirlby
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.
– Jerry Saltz
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
– Arianna Huffington
There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
– Dick Dale
There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
– W. Clement Stone
There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'
– Todd Phillips
There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
– Ed Koch
There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.
– Kenny Loggins
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
– George Byron
There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.
– Jennifer Hudson
There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.
– Marlee Matlin
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
– Anna Sewell
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
– Anthony Trollope
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
– Lope de Vega
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
– Max Lucado
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
– Samuel Richardson
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
– Ziggy Marley
There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.
– Demian Bichir
There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'
– Hunter Hayes
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
– William Godwin
There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.
– Michael Bay
There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.
– Rosario Dawson
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
– Sean Lennon
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
– William Hazlitt
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
– Andre Malraux
The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.
– Sylvia Day
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
– Hugh Jackman
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
– Peter Fonda
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.
– George Saunders
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
– Candace Bushnell
The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
– T-Pain
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
– Ho Chi Minh
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
– George Saunders
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
The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
– Jourdan Dunn
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
– Angelina Jolie
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
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
– Igor Stravinsky
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
– Mike Krzyzewski
The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.
– Paul Wesley
The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.
– Kelly Clarkson
The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
– Jane Smiley
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
– Margaret Sanger
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
– Oprah Winfrey
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
– Kristin Hersh
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
– Rod Parsley
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
– Luther Burbank
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
– Julia Child
The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.
– Stephen Collins
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
– George Saunders
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
– Joan Chen
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.
– Sarah Wayne Callies
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
– Gerard Depardieu
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
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
– Maynard James Keenan
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
– Chris Cleave
The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.
– Kelly Clarkson
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
– William Shenstone
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
– Joseph Butler
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
– Joseph Butler
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
– Andrew Jackson
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
– Sam Mendes
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
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
– Dario Argento
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
– Walter Benjamin
The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.
– Leighton Meester
The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.
– Curt Schilling
The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.
– Adam Levine
The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.
– Joel Silver
The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
– Miley Cyrus
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
– William Sanderson
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.
– Tom Shadyac
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
– Shelley Berman
The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.
– Alison Sweeney
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
– Al Green
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
– Mary Schmich
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
– Adrienne Rich
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
– Andrew Sullivan
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
– John Wooden
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
– Steven Seagal
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
– George Meredith
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
– Ben Okri
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
– Stendhal
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
– Paul Theroux
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
– Martin Amis
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
– Jane Rule
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
– J. C. Watts
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
– E. M. Forster
The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
– Rachael Ray
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
– Susan Sontag
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
– William Hazlitt
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
– Gertrude Jekyll
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
– Alexis Carrel
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
– Charles Kuralt
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
– George Santayana
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
– Gertrude Jekyll