Love Quotes

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
– Blaise Pascal
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
– Bradley Chicho
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
– Polykarp Kusch
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
– Celine Dion
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
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
– Brian Tracy
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
– Basil Hume
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
– Bill Walton
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
– Tim Berners-Lee
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.
– Christian Siriano
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
– Zig Ziglar
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
– Baz Luhrmann
The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.
– Colin Farrell
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
– Billy Campbell
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
– Anne Lamott
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
– Paul Stanley
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
– Samuel Johnson
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
– Ang Lee
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
– Charles Williams
The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.
– Hulk Hogan
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
– Felix Adler
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
– Mick Jagger
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
– William Hazlitt
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
– Peter De Vries
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
– George Henry Lewes
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
– Emil Ludwig
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
– Lionel Blue
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
– William Godwin
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
– Hermann Hesse
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
– Jasmine Guy
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
– Kerry Washington
The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.
– Sebastian Vettel
The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.
– Jennifer Lopez
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
– Henry Rollins
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
– Ice Cube
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
– Jennifer Aniston
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
– William Wordsworth
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
– Richard Le Gallienne
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
– Michael Jackson
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
– Audrey Hepburn
The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.
– Cornel West
The anger of lovers renews their love.
– Terence
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
– Leslie Caron
That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.
– Alison Krauss
That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.
– Kid Rock
That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!
– Roman Coppola
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
– Blaise Pascal
That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
– Marc Jacobs
That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
– Mos Def
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
– Garrison Keillor
Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
– Julie Bowen
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.
– Jeff Bridges
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
– Roger Moore
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.
– Patti Stanger
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
– George Herbert
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.
– Mark Cuban
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
– Richard Pryor
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
– Albert Schweitzer
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
– Herschel Walker
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
– Jeanne Moreau
Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.
– Michael Morpurgo
St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.
– Andy Cohen
Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.
– Delta Goodrem
Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. It's a tough class, which makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. It's a great way to burn fat and lean out the body. An all-around win!
– Alison Sweeney
Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
– Zac Efron
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
– Shirley Hazzard
Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
– Vanessa Paradis
Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
– Serj Tankian
Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
– Cameron Crowe
So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
– Jodie Foster
So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.
– Sophia Bush
So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.
– Loretta Swit
So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.
– Rupert Murdoch
So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.
– Christian Cooke
Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.
– Shaun White
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
– Leighton Meester
Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.
– Rory McIlroy
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
– Saint Augustine
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
– Fulton J. Sheen
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
– Ron Rash
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
– Anna Torv
Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.
– Lisa Snowdon
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
– Franz Kafka
Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
– Bryant McGill
Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.
– Sprague Grayden
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
– Joe Theismann
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
– Emanuel Celler
Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.
– Liu Wen
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
– Maggie Gallagher
Romantic love is painful.
– will.i.am
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.
– Cat Cora
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
– Miguel Angel Ruiz
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
– Anatole France
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
– Mary Douglas
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
– J. Courtney Sullivan
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
– Benny Green