Madeleine de Scudery Quotes
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken.
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Love is the only duty that we know.
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Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.
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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
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I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.
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Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
