Top 38 Quotes About Defining Love
#1. Beware young brides: The cruelest behaviors on earth are done in the name of, what some call, 'love.' Therefore, the Shulamite does a much better job at defining love than pop-culture.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#2. It's only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it's totality, that we realize that love is everywhere
Julian Pencilliah
#3. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
Eva Mendes
#4. Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better
Meg Jay
#5. I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.
Iwan Rheon
#6. You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.
Mariella Frostrup
#7. Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.
Carrie Vaughn
#9. There is no name so sweet on earth,
no name so sweet in heaven,
The name, before His wondrous birth,
to Christ the Savior given.
George Washington Bethune
#10. Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
Van Morrison
#11. The foundation of moral life as God's truthfulness.
John Piper
#12. So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
Brit Marling
#13. I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
Pablo Neruda
#14. Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life.
Shelley K. Wall
#15. I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
Andie MacDowell
#16. Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon.
Richard Baxter
#17. Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours.
Robert Anthony
#18. What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
Angelique Kidjo
#19. A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing - not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.
Michael Ondaatje
#20. I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.
Sebastian Faulks
#21. Remember, while words can be powerful, eloquent, and lasting, it is our committed action that will ultimately serve as the defining factor of our relationships.
Steve Maraboli
#22. We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.
Amity Shlaes
#24. The world as it was, is, or will be, is beyond common sense, beyond natural understanding: it must be taught.
Masood Ashraf Raja
#25. The days get longer and the nights smell green I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.
Modest Mouse
#26. The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?
Dan Pearce
#27. Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.
Debasish Mridha
#28. I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.
Columbus Short
#29. I would probably list myself as mostly straight. I've met guys all the time that I'm like, Damn, that's a good-looking guy, you know? I've never been, like, Oh, I want to kiss that guy. I really love women. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded.
Josh Hutcherson
#30. We're just a bunch of angry kinds with no money.
David
#31. I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
Malcolm Gets
#32. I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
Jenna Fischer
#33. Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida
#34. What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.
Meg Jay
#35. As you open to love, you can begin the process of defining your intentions for your dating life.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#36. All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#37. This is also the case with our disease-care system: it focuses on treating symptoms as if they were root causes, and as a result, it tends to choose interventions that completely ignore the true root causes and thus make it highly likely that symptoms will reappear.
T. Colin Campbell
#38. I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
Bret Easton Ellis