Arthur Balfour Quotes

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

We are always inclined to love and care for that which we know.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

Friends are just enemies in reverse.

Enemies are just friends in reverse.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other.

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.

They say everyone needs something to love.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

[The movie Beaches] was really about how women fight. Women fight, say terrible things to each other and an hour later they make up and go shopping. I think they got the better idea of how it should be done.

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.