“Love is a verb… and Verbs show action”
Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
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Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Journals A 126 (March 1836)
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Context: One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). How many people are just adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs? How few are substantives, active verbs, how many are copulas? Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“Nouns and verbs carry writing.”
Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 58
“Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Love the One You're With
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Taxed Beyond Belief (2002)
“The whole life lies in the verb seeing.”
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys