Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
Sacha Guitry

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker

I loved doing problems in school.
Andrew Wiles

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.
Stephen Sondheim

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
Marlo Thomas

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.
Elton John

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.
Brigitte Bardot

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
Saint Francis de Sales

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
David Herbert Lawrence

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
William Ames

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
Georges Duhamel

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
Mickey Mantle

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.
Gwyneth Paltrow

If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that's an important lesson.
Rooney Mara

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
Michelle Obama

I never cut class. I loved getting As, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
Michelle Obama