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Love Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
- What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
- The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
- The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
- Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
- Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
- If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
- A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
- All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
- Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
- No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
- To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
- God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
- If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
- Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
- Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
- What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
- After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.
- Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
- Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
- Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.
- If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
- We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
- Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
- The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide