Irving Kristol Quotes

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Everybody has their first love. I think it goes back to being in love with the idea of being in love. Everybody wants love, and your first love is special. You've never experienced anything like that. It's good to have a fond memory of it.

As a teenager, I had a weakness for freedom fighters. When Mugabe came to London to negotiate independence, I vanished from home to stand outside his hotel. I was very disappointed that he looked like a dorky teacher.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

'I Met You When I Was 18' is a collection of songs, a story about moving to New York City when I was 18 and falling in love for the first time. A story about trying to figure out your own identity whilst being deeply intertwined with someone else's.

I was in love when I was in college; we all were. I remember how beautiful everybody was. Even the plain people looked beautiful.

I fell in love at 18 when I was in college, and that's probably why I know what it's like to be in love, and I can express it in a better way.

Your first love is your first love. It cannot be analysed, explained, nor forgotten.

I think everybody goes through that, especially... being in love for the first time. Some people, they're lucky enough that that ends up being who they're with for the rest of their lives, and sometimes it doesn't work out.

YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

As a teenager, there was a young girl in my neighborhood that I ended up falling for.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.