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Movie Love Quotes

– “You are what you love, not what loves you. That’s what I decided a long time ago.” – Adaptation

– “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Annie

– “This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.” – Bridges of Madison County

– “…someday my wish is for him to hold me in his arms, in a sea of deep blue, together at last, together as two.” – Can’t Buy Me Love

– “Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.” – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

– “Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.” – Casablanca

– “If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever?” – Casper

– “Life is messy. Love is messier.” – Catch and Release

– “A dream is a wish your heart makes.” – Cinderella

– “I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.” – City of Angels

– “My husband and I fell in love at first sight… maybe I should have taken a second look.” – Crimes and Misdemeanors

– “Love is not a feeling, it’s an ability.” – Dan in Real Life

Famous Love Quotes

“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley

“So much of what we know of love we learn at home.” – Unknown

“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.” – Unknown

“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.” – Unknown

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Saint-Exupery

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.” – John Donne

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.” – Joseph Conrad

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” – La Rochefoucauld

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” – Christopher Marlowe

Famous Opinion Quotes

– "We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them." – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German-Swiss philosopher and writer.

– "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." – William Blake (1757-1827) British poet and painter.

– "Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

– "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

– "The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion." – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

– "Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods –moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former –but no opinion." – Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-born American political philosopher.

– "Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct." – Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist, author of "Sense and Sensibility

– "Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent." – Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

– "Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know." – Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) German philosopher.

Funny Work Quotes

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" – Edgar Bergen

"In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on – This person must be fired." – Conway’s Law

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work." – Robert Orben

"Satisfaction Guaranteed or Double Your Garbage Back." – Garbage Truck

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without." – Unknown

"I am a friend of the workingman, I would rather be his friend than be one." – Clarence Darrow

"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit." – Dwight Morrow

"The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches." – Bove’s Theorem

"If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire." – Cannon’s Law

"No project was ever completed on time and within budget." – Cheops Law "People are always available for work in the past tense." – Zymurgy’s Law of Volunteer Labour

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." – Lane Kirkland

18th Birthday Quotes

“From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.” – Sophie Tucker

“I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too.” – Liv Tyler

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein