Affection Quotes

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

When I'm getting a chance to do my job or make somebody's day, and be on stage where I love, and see all the fans having fun, you can't help but smile.

I'm a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives' song is 'Die a Happy Man.'

I love to see people laugh and put a smile on peoples' faces. Anytime I'm doing that I'm happy.

I love to smile.

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

Romantic love is painful.

I love to have my hair down I love to have my hair full... there's something romantic about it.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

I love a good romantic comedy.

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.

Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have.

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.

Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.

When I am in love, I am ridiculously and hopelessly romantic.

I am a very romantic person, and I love 'love' - however cheesy that sounds!

It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

I'm not a romantic.

I love it when a man cooks it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.

I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding, ' 'Pretty Woman, ' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.

I would love to do a romantic comedy - a good one.

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.

I'm a romantic.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.

It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.