Relationships Sayings

220 sayings found from 220 authors

Pothi padh padh kar jag mua, Pandit bhayo na koye. Dhai aakhar prem ke, jo padhe so Pandit hoye. (Reading books, the world died, but none became learned. He who reads but two and a half letters of love, he becomes learned.)

— Kabir 15th Century
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Love is free: to promise for ever to love the same woman, is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed: such a vow in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley 1813
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If you were in a situation where you needed to get to the hospital immediately, and you needed someone to drive you there, I know you have great love for me, but would you trust me driving there?

— Stevie Wonder 2016
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Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. ... When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, lik…

— Charlie Chaplin 1964
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Do not let your special talents in chemistry, your love for chemistry, keep you from developing your talents in other fields. Do not let yourself be a narrow specialist.

— Linus Pauling 1940s-1950s
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

— Mahatma Gandhi 1925
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Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' . . . ? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.

— Richard Stallman 2008
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Q. Understanding God as Love, why did God individualize Himself? A. In order to have something to love. Q. Why were the Rays divided? A. In order to express Love.

— Comte de Saint-Germain 20th century (attributed, though Saint-Germain lived in 18th century, these discourses are later interpretations)
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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, follow me.

— Garibaldi 1849
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

— Thomas Paine 1776
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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 whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an indust…

— Henry David Thoreau 1863
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For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
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If a man is born with a nature that loves profit, and if he acts according to this nature, he will contend with others and be rapacious. Hence, deference and courtesy will disappear, and the principles of good order and civilization will be lost.

— Xunzi c. 3rd century BCE
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The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would in fact be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would be a system of slavery where, thanks to consumption and entertainment, th…

— Aldous Huxley 1962
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everythin…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald Undated
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

— J.R.R. Tolkien 1954
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I love my wife, but sometimes I want to take a picture of her and send it to the police with a caption: 'Have you seen this woman? She's driving me crazy!'

— Robin Williams Unknown, common joke
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I'm not a feminist. I love men. I think feminism is just a way for women to complain. I love men, I love the way they smell, I love the way they walk, I love the way they talk, I love the way they look.

— Lady Gaga 2009
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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I kn…

— Carl Sagan 1995
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I'm a romantic.

— Nicolas Cage 2018
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