Love Ian Quotes

I came to the realization that I needed to become my best self in order to attract the kind of guy I would want to marry. If I wanted someone truly fabulous, I had better become truly fabulous first. ~ Ian Kerner

The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation
it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him. ~ Ian McEwan

But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. ~ Ian McEwan

Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there. ~ Ian McEwan

You greedy schmuck!" Denise burst out.
Ian cast a leisurely glance in her direction. "And now my feelings are hurt. That'll cost you the boat, too. ~ Jeaniene Frost

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible. ~ Ian McEwan

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid ... you should always be aiming for a top half finish ~ Ian Holloway

Either way, always maintain a compassionate stance toward yourself as God does. Self-contempt will never produce lasting, healing change in our lives, only love. ~ Ian Morgan Cron

Self persuasion was a concept much loved by evolutionary psychologists. I had written a piece about it for an Australian magazine. It was pure armchair science, and it went like this: if you lived in a group, like humans have always done, persuading others of your own needs and interests would be fundamental to your well-being. Sometimes you had to use cunning. Clearly you would be at your most convincing if you persuaded yourself first and did not even have to pretend to believe what you were saying. The kind of self-deluding individuals who tended to do this flourished, as did their genes. So it was we squabbled and scrapped, for our unique intelligence was always at the service of our special pleading and selective blindness to the weakness of our case. ~ Ian McEwan

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes. ~ Ian McEwan

Toni, I barely know you, but I canna see anything remotely unworthy about you. any man would be blessed and honored to receive yer love. (Ian MacPhie) ~ Kerrelyn Sparks

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. ~ Bill W.

I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross. ~ Sheena Easton

I felt like I was participating in a holy march," he later said. "It was something so moving, so precious, so spiritual." Then he saw the troopers putting on gas masks and coming toward the column of peaceful marchers, beginning to beat the marchers and releasing tear gas. "I thought I was going to die," said Lewis, who was beaten so badly that he still bears the scars. "But we didn't fight back. We didn't strike back. We didn't hate. We had been taught to love. The way of love is much more powerful, much more creative. And somehow I came to realize that there was a spark of the Divine in every human being. ~ Joseph Pierce Farrell

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good. ~ John Piper

Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind.
Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my sould holds for you. ~ Kassandra Sims

You should always say goodbye to the people you love before you walk away. Hug them and hold them tight like it is the last moment you have, because it just might be. ~ Jenna Alatari

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real. ~ Jeremy Renner

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Your body is yours. My body is mine. No one's body is up for comment. No matter how small, how large, how curvy, how flat. If you love you, then I love you. ~ Shonda Rhimes

You wish me to tell you all of my secrets? I am grateful, but I am not in love. ~ Robert Jordan

God gives us love, someone to love he lends us. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dahlia, I will love you forever." Then I kiss her and finish telling her my thoughts. "In this lifetime and in the next. ~ Kim Karr

Love is the ultimate thief. ~ Marc Secchia

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. ~ Mason Cooley

The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. ~ Carroll Bryant

If I were a rock star, I'd have Taylor Swifted him and written one of those anthemic I don't love you anymore songs. ~ Lauren Blakely

To love someone is the most beautiful adventure but to be loved by some one is a great reward. ~ Debasish Mridha

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course. ~ David Christian

Connection is life; disconnection, death. ~ Deborah Day

Love in your heart gives you the universe in your hands. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In his savage, untutored breast new emotions were stirring. He could not fathom them. He wondered why he felt so great an interest in these people - why he had gone to such pains to save the three men. But he did not wonder why he had torn Sabor from the tender flesh of the strange girl.
Surely the men were stupid and ridiculous and cowardly. Even Manu, the monkey, was more intelligent than they. If these were creatures of his own kind he was doubtful if his past pride in blood was warranted.
But the girl, ah - that was a different matter. He did not reason here. He knew that she was created to be protected, and that he was created to protect her ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven. ~ James Hervey

She moved, so that they were now standing arm in arm: two ladies, she thought, a brown lady from Botswana and a white lady from somewhere far away, America perhaps, somewhere like that, some place of neatly cut lawns and air conditioning and shining buildings, some place where people wanted to love others if only given the chance. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Remember that our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know you best and love you the most. ~ M. Russell Ballard

Love is much more demanding than law. ~ Desmond Tutu

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship. ~ Jared Padalecki

For mermaids are the most unnatural of creatures and their hearts are empty of love. ~ Imogen Hermes Gowar

I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating. ~ Michelle Kwan

I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes you say things because they make you feel better. Sometimes you say that because it makes me feel better. "I love you" stays locked behind my teeth because there is no way saying it aloud will make you feel anything but worse. I don't say it, because when you love someone, really love them, you don't want anything you do to ever hurt them. ~ Megan Hart

I've always thought that love thrives on a certain kind of distance, that it requires an awed separateness to continue. Without that necessary remove, the physical minutiae of the other person grows ugly in its magnification. ~ Siri Hustvedt

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be. ~ Wayne Dyer

Everyday fall in love with being alive ~ Mimi Novic

And there is nothing you can do to make God love you less. Love is not something God does. It is who God is. And because of who he is, God loves you. Period. ~ Craig Groeschel