Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
John Steinbeck
Related Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it ... TOM HIDDLESTON Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you, and you'll never treat yourself right, darlin... NIALL HORAN How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It’s impo... COLLEEN HOOVER You say you’re sure ? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so ... KAZUO ISHIGURO You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darling ... NIALL HORAN Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply becaus... STEWART E. WHITE Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." Blanche Somethings you forgive, some... NEIL SIMON Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. ... PAULA HELLER GARLAND I don’t think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.’... MARISA DE LOS SANTOS You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of. ROALD DAHL Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... CHRISTOPHER PIKE If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to kn... FREDERICK BUECHNER Never trust words that you are not sure of the truth. NELINA JUNE ORBE RILLOMA Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something... DOROTHY ALLISON Treasure love for yourself. You are the person you have to live with. Make sure no one robs off you ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Of course I love you. For real. I will sure come and personally meet you myself. Just to make sure y... FAKEER ISHAVARDAS I am not sure anyone loves you if you hate yourself but many will hate you if you love yourself. VIKRANT PARSAI I'm sure he'll never forget it. You never forget your first one, that's for sure. ED OLCZYK Before marrying a woman make sure that you can support her. VIKRANT PARSAI Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. JOHN LENNON You are in 'real love' if you are 100 percent sure you will die for it. EPHDAN Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the e... JODI PICOULT Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. WILL CUPPY Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are neve... MICHAEL KORDA Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone. LAUREN CONRAD I miss you,' she said. 'Every day, I miss you. And I wonder what you would have made of all this. Ma... SARAH J. MAAS If everyone you meet is a mirror reflecting you back to yourself, make sure to find a way to love wh... ZENSHINE When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be... SHANNON L. ALDER The only thing, you are sure of changing is yourself. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA These are characters they know and love, and you want to make sure to be true to those characters. CHARLOTTE EVANS I’ll never get tired of hearing your sweet words, but I will get tired of not DIEGO VELASQUEZ You feel like maybe you need the rest . . . but you have to make sure you stay on top of the little ... ALEX AULD the only thing you are sure of is that you aren't sure of anything any more. JOE POYER Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive. ALANNAH MYLES When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. JOEL OSTEEN When you take care of your children, you are not sure they will take care of you. But when you take ... LALIT BHOJWANI When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult... JASHON P Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. JOHN LENNON Someday me and her, we’ll come back here. Maybe she’ll be an artist. Maybe she won’t. Maybe I�... KATIE MCGARRY When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful. EMMANUELLE BEART Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at. DAN O'BRIEN You don't love a woman because she's beautiful,
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who... ANNE TYLER Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now w... CASSANDRA CLARE When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love h... SHANNON L. ALDER Being Yourself” means aligning your beliefs, words and actions. Be yourself, accept yourself, valu... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There are things we all know about but we don't think they are important. Like hurting while se... SIMRAN.M.ANTHONY I've never advocated, although I would love to, abstaining completely from alcohol. Because that's n... GARY REQUA Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful... COLLEEN HOOVER I searched for years I found no love. 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JOHN STEINBECK ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides whit... JOHN STEINBECK He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give ... JOHN STEINBECK No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. JOHN STEINBECK In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and ... JOHN STEINBECK Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man. JOHN STEINBECK You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let your... JOHN STEINBECK Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls... JOHN STEINBECK To be alive at all is to have scars. JOHN STEINBECK If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about ... JOHN STEINBECK Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't l... JOHN STEINBECK I was mean life a wolf. Now i'm mean like a weasel. When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an'... JOHN STEINBECK When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when... JOHN STEINBECK But this—this is a ladder to climb to the stars.” Lee’s eyes shone. “You can never lose that... JOHN STEINBECK And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing... JOHN STEINBECK Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and ... JOHN STEINBECK Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mi... JOHN STEINBECK No one who is young is ever going to be old. JOHN STEINBECK ..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, an... JOHN STEINBECK It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. JOHN STEINBECK Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. JOHN STEINBECK A man without words is a man without thought. JOHN STEINBECK When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else... JOHN STEINBECK But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thin... JOHN STEINBECK A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. JOHN STEINBECK People like you to be something, preferably what they are. JOHN STEINBECK