“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”

“Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.”

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda
From 100 Love Sonnets
like this quote”

“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.”

“I love you is an interesting phrase, in that apparently small alterations–taking away the I, adding a word like lots or loads–render it meaningless.”

“Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.”

“People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently—and generally better—than people who serve other masters.”
“So it is like believing in God.”

“Most of the people who do this kind of work, do it out of love, like the love you'd show to an ailing friend.”

“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”

“As quoted in General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (1991) by Ed Cray, p. 591”