Quotes by Authors - Page 202

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Connors as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story the 1970s hit which immortalized the phrase "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.
Marge Kennedy
Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire good marriage same rule.
Marnie Reed Crowell
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.
Rita Rudner
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Mark Twain
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
Anonymous
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons longing as all individuals do to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals can participate in a relationship that for the moment is not of two isolated selves but a union.
Rollo May
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long intricate intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.
Anonymous
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
André Maurois
When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.
Miss Piggy
If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King
The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.
G. W. Gough
Common sense is in spite of not the result of education.
Victor Hugo
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
Charles Swindoll
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B.C. Forbes
The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.
Darrell Royal
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
Nathalie Sarraute
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.
Mary Parker Follett
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan
The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.
Anonymous
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
Jim Hightower
The dedicated life is the life worth living.
Annie Dillard
It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.
Paul Goodman
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
If you aren't going all the way why go at all?
Joe Namath
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.
Michael Evans
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got hungry scolded God were egotistical or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
Phyllis McGinley
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott
It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
Mary Henle
When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.
Lou Holtz
You can't try to do things you simply must do them.
Ray Bradbury
One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.
Judith Viorst
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
L. J. Cardinal Suenens
What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough.
Louis L'Amour
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors you had better seek another flag.
Anonymous
To have no loyalty is to have no dignity and in the end no manhood.
Peter Taylor Forsyth
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Lord Chesterfield
I am a stranger to half measures.
Marita Golden
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
The moment one definitely commits oneself the Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
WH. Murray
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it full in the face and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B.C. Forbes
A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
Evelyn Scott