Love Quotes: Expressions of the Heart (Page 22)

"Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Love cannot save you from your own fate"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too"

William Blake, Poet

"Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I love to hit people. I love to"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer