quotes about Great Love
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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
-- Agatha Christie -
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
-- Alan Bradley -
I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
-- Albert Camus -
You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
-- Ann Brashares -
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
-- Anne FortierSource : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.149, Ballantine Books
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It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.
-- Antonio Banderas -
Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.
-- Bertrand Russell -
My two great loves are music and horses.
-- Betty BuckleySource : Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. September, 2006.
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Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.
-- Brit MarlingSource : Source: collider.com
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
... I'm on the road right now ... all is well ... Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is great, loved it ...
-- Cesar Rosas -
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I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.
-- Christopher Nolan -
Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.
-- Dolph LundgrenSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You do have great love within you at this very moment.
-- Doreen Virtue -
I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
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Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.
-- Ella Reeve BloorSource : Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
-- Erica Jong -
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
-- Evelyn UnderhillSource : Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993). “The Ways of the Spirit”, Crossroad Publishing Company
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At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a great love for Christ filled my soul. That was more than fifty years ago. I loved Jesus Christ then, but I loved Him more the year after, and more the year after that, and more every year since
-- George Muller -
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I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
-- Ginger Baker -
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
-- Gregory David RobertsSource : Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.556, Macmillan
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I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.
-- Hadewijch -
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People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.
-- Heidi Baker -
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
-- Helen Hunt Jackson -
I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
-- Imelda MarcosSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Ive always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. Im ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country,
-- Jiang ZeminSource : "Hong Kong's new leaders offer reassuring words". www.cnn.com. July 1, 1997.
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Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this.
-- John Crowe RansomSource : John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”
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If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve.
-- John Ortberg -
I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
-- Judy Garland -
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.
-- Julia Roberts -
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
-- Katherine Cecil ThurstonSource : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.96, tredition
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Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.
-- Kathleen RaineSource : Kathleen Raine, “Confessions”
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Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can acually live on.
-- Kristin Chenoweth -
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
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Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.
-- Letitia Baldrige -
Great lovers have made great sacrifices.
-- Louis AuchinclossSource : Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.
-- Mary Webb -
Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.
-- Maya Angelou -
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
-- Miguel de CervantesSource : "Death Comes for the Archbishop". Book by Willa Cather, 1927.
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Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.
-- Mike Donehey -
If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
-- Mother Teresa -
Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
-- Mother Teresa -
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None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
-- Mother Teresa -
One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
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There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love
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To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.
-- Mother Teresa -
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But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.
-- Nancy Mitford -
Every great love starts with a great story...
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
-- Norman MacCaig -
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf -
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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 -
Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.
-- Peter Julian Eymard -
If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.
-- Philip YanceySource : Philip Yancey (2003). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.112, HarperCollins Christian Publishing
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To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved,
-- Piper PeraboSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
-- R.J. Rushdoony -
You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.
-- Ray Manzarek -
One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.
-- Robert James Waller -
Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
-- Saffron Aldridge -
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I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships...
-- Scarlett JohanssonSource : "Pop Tarts: Woody Allen: 'Scarlett Johansson in No Way My Muse'" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. August 22, 2008.
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Not everyone's life will be a great love story.
-- Scott HutchinsSource : Scott Hutchins (2012). “A Working Theory of Love: A Novel”, p.9, Penguin
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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
-- Shane Claiborne -
Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.
-- Steve Garvey -
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I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
-- Thomas Jane -
A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.
-- Tom Baker -
41, you look great. Love what you're doing.
-- William J. Clinton -
I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'
-- Conan O'Brien -
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All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.
-- Diadochos of Photiki -
I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.
-- Emily Susan RappSource : Source: therumpus.net
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This was all very early on, there was no romance between them then,[Adolf] Hitler was living with Geli Raubal and made a very big display over her, that she was his great love and so forth.
-- Gretl Braun -
We're talking a lot about reason and religion today, but I really hope that the American experiment can continue, because liberty really is a condition of the human heart and I have a great love and hope for the future of people.
-- James WassermanSource : Source: www.lotusguide.com
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I think you get one great love in your life like that, if you're lucky enough, where you hold nothing back. And I'm not saying that's the healthiest way to love either.
-- Linda D. Thompson -
The idea of the portrait itself is my great love. The questions and answers in it can go on forever and ever. It is what happens in the eyes or with a tilt of the head. I keep going because it's too interesting to stop.
-- Tina Barney -
I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didnt really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didnt have a great love for it.
-- B. D. Wong -
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There can be no great love without exclusivity.
-- Carol Grace -
I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.
-- Christian McKay -
I have a great love for cuisine, so Im always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.
-- Romain Grosjean -
Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.
-- Garfield Sobers -
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The fact that I loved Jesus was beginning to interfere with the plans I once had for my life and certainly with the plans others had for me. My heart had been apprehended by a great love, a love that compelled me to live differently.
-- Katie Davis