Love Quotes: Expressions of the Heart (Page 7)

"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"I just want to get a Ph.D. in love"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries"

Jimmy Carter, President

"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Love is not a volunteer thing"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"We love your adherence to democratic principles"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"We love because it's the only true adventure"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"We loved with a love that was more than love"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"You've got to love what you do to really make things happen"

Philip Green, Businessman

"Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love"

Don Rose, Radio host

"I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

"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 mustaches, they're my heroes"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge"

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross"

Megan Fox, Actress