quotes about Valentines Day
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
-- Albert Camus -
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage
-- Anna Kendrick -
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
-- Armistead MaupinSource : Armistead Maupin (1992). “Maybe the moon: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
-- Audre Lorde -
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
-- Ben HechtSource : "A Child of the Century".
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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
-- Ben Hecht -
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I never knew that I could love someone the way that I love you.
-- Ben RectorSource : Song: White Dress, 2010
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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
-- Bil Keane -
Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!
-- Billy Graham -
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
-- Boethius -
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
-- C. S. Lewis -
And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more.
-- Christina PerriSource : Song: A Thousand Years, Pt. 2
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-- Christopher Parsons -
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Come close to me baby. Let your love hold you. I know this world is crazy, but what's it without you?
-- Common -
I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.
-- Dr. Seuss -
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
-- Erich Segal -
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
-- Esai MoralesSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Love is a game that two can play and both win.
-- Eva GaborSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
-- Ferenc Kazinczy -
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
-- George Edward Moore -
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
-- George Eliot -
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
-- George Eliot -
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
-- Helen Fisher -
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Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved them.
-- Helmut Thielicke -
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
-- Henri de Toulouse-LautrecSource : "La Vie de Toulouse-Lautrec' (T-Lautrec)". Book by Henri Perruchot translated by Humphrey Hare (p. 76), 1960/1961.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.
-- Ingrid Michaelson -
Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.
-- Ingrid MichaelsonSource : Song: You and I, Album: Be OK, 2008
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The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.
-- James StalkerSource : James Stalker (1902). “The Seven Cardinal Virtues”
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Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
-- Jay Leno -
Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.
-- Jerry Weller -
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan CarrollSource : Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.89, Macmillan
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst -
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If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.
-- Kathy Valentine -
But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing.
-- Kathy Valentine -
The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.
-- Kathy Valentine -
Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.
-- Kathy Valentine -
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I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.
-- Kathy Valentine -
The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.
-- Kathy Valentine -
I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.
-- Kathy Valentine -
We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.
-- Kathy Valentine -
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Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.
-- Kathy Valentine -
It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.
-- Kathy Valentine -
When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.
-- Kathy Valentine -
I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.
-- Kathy Valentine -
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It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.
-- Kathy Valentine -
Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.
-- Kathy Valentine -
A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.
-- Kathy Valentine -
I haven't been approached to do anything, but I would certainly make room for it. It was a really fun time.
-- Kathy Valentine -
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Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
-- Kathy Valentine -
We always have a good time playing, and I'm glad it shows.
-- Kathy Valentine -
I'm hoping that with the high profile that the Go-Go's are going to have over the next year, that if anybody is interested in what else I do, I'll have something I can say that I do.
-- Kathy Valentine -
No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.
-- L. P. JacksSource : L.P. Jacks (1924). “A Living Universe”
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.
-- Michael Drayton -
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
-- Mignon McLaughlinSource : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.33, BookBaby
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Music is the best way for me to say I love you.
-- Mireille Mathieu -
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
-- Natalie Clifford BarneySource : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers
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I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
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If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.
-- Nick Drake -
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
-- Oscar Wilde -
You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.
-- Paul J. Zak -
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
-- Pearl Bailey -
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
-- Robert Browning -
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My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'
-- Robin Ince -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
-- S. J. Perelman -
Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.
-- Sarah McLachlanSource : Song: Better Than Ice Cream
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Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
-- Sean Connery -
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I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentines Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.
-- Spencer Boldman -
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.
-- Susie Bright -
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
-- Thomas Merton -
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
-- Thomas Merton -
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
-- Thomas MooreSource : Thomas Moore (1829). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore”, p.331
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
-- W. H. Auden -
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
-- Willa Cather -
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
-- William Shakespeare -
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
-- William Shakespeare -
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
-- Yip Harburg -
Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.
-- Yip Harburg -
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I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.
-- Zac Efron -
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.
-- Charles Hanson TowneSource : Charles Hanson Towne (1908). “The Quiet Singer: And Other Poems”
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Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID surprise his wife for Valentines Day.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.
-- Doug McIntoshSource : Doug McIntosh, Paula McIntosh (1999). “Love Full Circle: The Golden Rule”, Moody Pub
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