Tag Archives: Love

Motivating Thoughts On America

 

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith

Rachel: The pilgrims came here to escape persecution from the British. Elizabeth: Yes, so they could go about persecuting the Indians.
ER, “Great Expectations”

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
Will Rogers

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
Marshall McLuhan

I will never admit that the beloved flag is to me merely the symbol of a land where I can live in rich content and make money.
Henry Cabot Lodge

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.
Dave Beard

I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Francis Bellamy, The Youth’s Companion, 8 September 1892 (Thank you, Anna.)

Quotes on Affection

 

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
James Thurber

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton

Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.
Erich Segal

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas

Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran

Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de Angelis

Motivating Quotes On Wedding

 

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac

One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
Robert Burton

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
Groucho Marx

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
John Boehner

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Antisthenes

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
Henny Youngman

Quotes on Sisters

 

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.
Amy Li

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Marion C. Garretty

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.
Alice Walker

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Charles M. Schulz

If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
Linda Sunshine

You can kid the world. But not your sister.
Charlotte Gray

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
Emily Dickinson

Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.
Louisa May Alcott

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
Pam Brown

In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
Catherine Killigrew

Great Belief Quotes

 

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.
Charlize Theron

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we’re here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
Gillian Anderson

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
Paul Wellstone

We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.
Charles Bronson

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
Bryant H. McGill

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
Dee Hock

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman

Ali’s belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it’s become my own philosophy.
Sugar Ray Leonard

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief.
Christian Bale

Motivating Quotes On Experience

 

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.
Robert Brault

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
Josh Billings

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Chinese Proverb

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Colette

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses

The problem is that when you get it, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.
Jimmy Connors, on experience

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Author Unknown