Top 100 Quotes About Amor
#1. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
Ovid
#2. This love beyond time and space, it knows only it's own truth. Immortalis Amor, Darkest Secrets
Dominique Vandorien
#3. Oi, meu amor." She said. Hello, my love, in Portuguese.
Callie Anderson
#4. Amor es despertar a una mujer y que no se indigne.
(Love is when you wake up a woman and she is not mad at you.)
Ramon Gomez De La Serna
#5. Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.
Virgil
#6. The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
[Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]
Juvenal
#7. Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.
Lauren Oliver
#8. Amor does not vincit omnia, you ignorant man... when the woman doesn't amat you back!
Liz Braswell
#9. If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.
Albert Einstein
#10. O: Are you asleep, mi amor?
C: [no response]
O: There is a spider on your face.
C: [no response]
O: That's a little trick, Juan-George, to make sure someone's really asleep. There's no spider.
Antoine Wilson
#11. For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who you are.
For the people who will infect me in the future
- I can't wait to see who you'll be.
And in both cases:
Thank you.
Lauren Oliver
#12. Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.
Herman Melville
#13. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. Now I'm a warrior
Now i've got thicker skin
I'm a warrior
I'm stronger than i've ever been
And my amor
Is made of steel you can't get in
i'm a warrior
And you can never hurt me again
Demi Lovato
#15. Shh, mi amor. The neighbors will hear and call the police.
Kate Richards
#16. My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
Virgil
#18. My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. ( ... ) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.
James Joyce
#20. Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.
Lauren Groff
#21. Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor
which means
By soft words must love be fostered
Janet Aylmer
#22. I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world ... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi .
Hannah Arendt
#23. Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#24. [Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere ... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist
Jon Pareles
#25. If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#26. By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
light chariot, and establish love.
[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]
Ovid
#27. Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.
Lauren Oliver
#28. The disease. Amor deliria nervosa. You can't catch it from me. I'm safe." Alex told me that very same thing, once. I push the memories of him away, willing them deep into the darkness. "And
Lauren Oliver
#29. I wanted her to change my world."
"Mi amor, only you can change your world.
Gabby Rivera
#30. Don't, amor. Te adoro. I've already lost a son. I'm not going to lose another. You're not alone, Ari. I know it feels that way. But you're not." "How can you love me so much?" "How could I not love you? You're the most beautiful boy in the world.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#31. To see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of amor
this will amuse me for a while longer, I think.
Patricia Briggs
#32. Quod not cogit amor? (Is there anything love couldn't make us do?)
Karen Marie Moning
#33. Be careful mi amor, don't hurt anyone this time." Cordia reminded Jade.
Isabelle Hardesty
#34. Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
[Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]
Ovid
#35. You don't 'find' love, mi amor. You choose it. And then to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day.
Patricia Engel
#37. I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies - I'll go to those, but not 'las de amor.' Not romance. It's not that I don't like love, but on the screen it bores me.
Sergio Garcia
#38. For when life makes it impossible for a man to pursue his dreams, he will connive to pursue them anyway.
Amor Towles
#40. And what does he have to say to the impressionable young student at his side? That all poets must eventually bow before the haiku. Bow before the haiku! Can you imagine." "For my part," contributed the Count, "I am glad that Homer wasn't born in Japan." Mishka
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#41. Love is the path that guides the men to the fields of infinite LIGHT!
Dave Zebian
#42. Either way, he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night.
Amor Towles
#43. True, it would not be a new venture for him. But need it be? Could one possibly accuse him of nostalgia or idleness, of wasting his time simply because he had read the story two or three times before?
Amor Towles
#44. It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.
Amor Towles
#45. Well, if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better for the job.
Amor Towles
#46. For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.
Amor Towles
#47. By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End The
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#48. That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
Amor Towles
#49. the only things that came from the practice were foolhardy acts, ill-advised liaisons, and gambling debts.
Amor Towles
#50. I had never tried other drugs... But how can any of them with their effects transcend the intoxication of a first love?! It swallowed me unexpectedly. It tied me to a man once and for all. It blinded me... Disarmed me... And made me lose my mind.
Rom Amor
#51. Suddenly - I shone in all my might, and morning rang its round. Always to shine, to shine everywhere, to the very depths of the last days, to shine - and to hell with everything else! That is my motto - and the sun's!
Amor Towles
#52. We can be a victim or a creator. One takes negative memories to use as a crutch, remain the same and blame. The latter takes negative memories accepting responsibility for choosing the situation to learn, evolve and change.
Juls Amor
#53. A king fortifies himself with a castle," observed the Count, "a gentleman with a desk." As
Amor Towles
#54. Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.
Juls Amor
#55. Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard.
Amor Towles
#56. What was your favorite day of the year? The summer solstice. June twenty-first. The longest day of the year.
Amor Towles
#57. I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.
Amor Towles
#58. For the next few minutes, there was a thorough rehashing of the courses (That meat was delicious. The sauce was perfect. And ooh that chocolate mousse.) This was a social nicety that seemed more prevalent the higher you climbed the social ladder and the less your hostess cooked.
Amor Towles
#59. From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time. Such is the fate of iron ore.
Amor Towles
#60. You can always tell a rich New York girl from a poor one. And you can tell a rich Boston girl from a poor one. After all, that's what accents and manners are there for. But to the native New Yorker, the midwestern girls all looked and sounded the same. Sure, the
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#61. Time is powerless. An instant could be enough for us and eternity could be too short. We, and only we, decide what time is for us.
Rom Amor
#62. Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box. . . ." Nina
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#63. That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.
Amor Towles
#64. Does a banquet really need an asparagus server?" "Does an orchestra need a bassoon?
Amor Towles
#65. Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.
Amor Towles
#66. One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.
Amor Towles
#67. Little closer, as if I hadn't quite heard him. I leaned at an angle five degrees less acute than the waitress had. - What's that? - I was wondering if there's a melody in there. - It just went out for a smoke. It'll be back in a minute. But I take it that you don't
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#68. Charlotte Sykes approaching from the washrooms. She had changed into high heels and a tangerine-colored blouse that clashed with all her best intentions.
Amor Towles
#69. - Did Eve know? About you and Anne, I mean.
He shook his head wanly. The very definition of wanly. The apotheosis of wanly.
Amor Towles
#70. Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.
Amor Towles
#71. For if a room that exists under the governance, authority, and intent of others seems smaller than it is, then a room that exists in secret can, regardless of its dimensions, seem as vast as one cares to imagine. Rising
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#72. If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I'd have been shooting them all my life.
Amor Towles
#73. For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How
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#74. While the splendors that elude us in youth are likely to receive our casual contempt in adolescence and our measured consideration in adulthood, they forever hold us in their thrall.
Amor Towles
#75. The principle here is that a new generation owes a measure of thanks to every member of the previous generation. Our
Amor Towles
#77. The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but
Amor Towles
#78. If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [ ... ] The upcoming one.
Amor Towles
#79. But Fate would not have the reputation it has if it simply did what it seemed it would do.
Amor Towles
#80. Be careful when choosing what you're proud of
because the world has every intention of using it against you.
Amor Towles
#81. It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life," he began, "that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces.
Amor Towles
#82. She could have made a favourable impression on someone if she hadn't acted as though at any moment the city was going to step on her
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#83. As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion ... if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.
Amor Towles
#84. So while dueling may have begun as a response to high crimes - to treachery, treason, and adultery - by 1900 it had tiptoed down the stairs of reason, until they were being fought over the tilt of a hat, the duration of a glance, or the placement of a comma. In
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#85. Hollywood is the single most dangerous force in the history of class struggle." Or
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#86. Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.
Oscar Wilde
#87. An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them.
Amor Towles
#88. sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true." "sometimes," nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody...
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#89. But the objection being raised was not due to the phrase's overall lack of verve; rather it was due to the word facilitate. Specifically, the verb had been accused of being so tepid and prim that it failed to do justice to the labors of the men in the room.
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#90. Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America
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#91. It seemed to give shape to the open air, or rather to reveal the hidden architecture that was there all along - the invisible cathedral that vaulted over the surface of the pond - known only to sparrows and dragonflies but invisible to the human eye.
Amor Towles
#92. On those we love:
"Every year that passed, it seemed a little more of her had slipped away; and I began to fear that one day I would come to foget her altogether. But the truth is: No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely.
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#93. 6th Sleep not when others Speak, Sit not when others stand, Speak not when you Should hold your Peace, walk not on when others Stop. 7th
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#94. Life is every bit as devious as Death. It too can wear a hooded coat. It too can slip into town, lurk in an alley, or wait in the back of a tavern.
Amor Towles
#95. I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.
Amor Towles
#96. Would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!
Charlotte Bronte
#97. I knew too well the nature of life's distractions and enticements-how the piecemeal progress of our hopes and ambitions commands our undivided attention, reshaping the ethereal into the tangible, and commitments into compromises.
Amor Towles
#98. If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us ... then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.
Amor Towles
#99. She is no more than thirty pounds; no more than three feet tall; her entire bag of belongings could fit in a single drawer; she rarely peaks unless spoken to; and her heart beats no louder than a bird's. So how is it possible that she takes up so much space?!
Amor Towles
#100. To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?
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