I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
Jack NicholsonRead
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Interpretation
Love often makes people act foolishly, and many embrace that foolishness willingly.
Jack Nicholson's quote highlights the universal tendency of individuals to act in illogical or foolish ways when they are in love. It suggests that the joy and euphoria associated with love often outweigh the sober realization of oneβs foolishness, and many would rather indulge in these whimsical behaviors than reject the experience of love.
In practice
Using this quote during a wedding toast to celebrate the joy and foolishness of love.
I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.
The love of God is not created- it is His nature.
You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.
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