Love Quotes

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

~ P. J. Harvey

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

~ Bette Midler

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

~ John Green

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

~ Debra Messing

If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.

~ Nev Schulman

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

~ Terry Richardson

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

~ Maya Angelou

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

~ Kina Grannis

Although I have a lot of close female friends in my life, my number one is still my mom. Without her, I wouldn't have the values that I have and see the world the way that I do today. She taught me how to appreciate and respect women. She taught me chivalry and how to love a woman and respect their feelings and emotions.

~ Shemar Moore

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

~ Michael Jordan

Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite - and because of - your flaws.

~ Jewell Parker Rhodes

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

~ Katy Perry

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

~ Ingrid Newkirk

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

~ Allan Hamilton

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

~ Taylor Swift

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

~ John Gray

The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

~ Q'orianka Kilcher

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

~ Katy Perry

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

~ Mother Teresa

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

~ June Jordan

I fear God and respect God and love God.

~ Brett Ratner

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

~ Anton Chekhov

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

~ Jasmine Guy

At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

~ Helena Norberg-Hodge

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

~ Rumi

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

~ Ingrid Newkirk

I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

~ Ice Cube

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

~ George Best

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

~ Salvador Dalí

Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

~ Adam Grant

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

~ Philip James Bailey

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

~ Katy Perry

I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

~ Jack Ma

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

~ T. J. Miller

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

~ Karen Salmansohn

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

~ Orson Welles

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

~ Ed Koch

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

Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz