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“The crowd loved my new music, they could not get enough. Their personal favorite was “Keya Mmokolodi”, the title track and “Mokwepa”. “Ke ya Mmokolodi” talks about love; basically how you can love your partner better but presented in a satirical way.”
Magdeline Lesolebe (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And yet she had the feeling this evening that it was as Brother Edwin had said—that if someone had enough faith, then he could indeed work miracles. But she did not want that kind of faith; she did not love God and His Mother and the saints in that way. She would never love them in that way. She loved the world and longed for the world.”
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Feminists are not nuns, that first must be established. We want to love and be loved, and most of us want children, one or two at least. But we want our love to be joyous and free – not clouded with ignorance and fear.”
Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Birth Control Review, January 1918
“I love music. I love classical music. That was the thing that first brought us (my husband and me) together. My husband loved classical music and I still do. I have a library in Ibadan for the collection of classical music.”
Adetoun Ogunsheye (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She would love it. Just as he loved her. He paused for a second, his fingers touching the door handle. He was in love. The realisation came to him quite suddenly.”
Lesley Lokko (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Personal glory, greatness, fame, are but a passing thing. The love that is created in life, on the other hand, is eternal, for God alone is eternal, and love comes to us from God. If there is one thing I have never regretted, it is that I have loved so many people in my life, and so much.”
Sammy Basso (1995–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My favourite song is Freweini. It is a song about Eritrea, but it also tells about a mother. Love is always loved, one doesn’t forget it. But love for one country is incomparable. A mother and your own country is basically the same.”
Tsehaytu Beraki (1939–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics always interested me. I loved my constituents, I love people and I enjoy people, as I love and enjoy every single day.”
Carol Berman (1923–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remembering Lawrence native Carol Berman: A Legacy of Leadership, Service, and Family Retrieved 18 April 2025
“To love, Christians must do as God does: not expect to be loved, but love “first.”
Chiara Lubich (1920–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the title, I loved it. in the same way that the stories take on extra meaning after coming after the other stories. What I love about it is the way the title 'Opportunity' takes on so much meaning coming after the novel's provocation...”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved him from the day I realized I love him and I have to love him until I die,”
Eugene Domingo (born 1971) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Here's what Eugene Domingo learned about love in her nearly decade-long marriage to Danilo Bottoni, Toff C., Push Team, 4 February 2026.
“I love Luigi so much and the love I feel for him is the most intense. This is the most I’ve ever been loved. It’s a beautiful thing that he admires me as a person — everything, flaws and all.”
Yassi Pressman (born 1995) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yassi Pressman on boyfriend Luigi Villafuerte: 'Best relationship I ever had in my life', MJ Felipe, ABS-CBN News 24 November 2025.
“I'm kind of nocturnal. I love Conan. He's the bomb. I love Howard Stern when he's being good. I'm dying to get on that show. I also watch Ally McBeal, it's cool and smart. I've always loved The Simpsons. They are such a funky family.”
Eliza Dushku (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. Another is lack of proportion, the obsession with one desire or one principle to the minimising or exclusion of others; exaggeration, in fact.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cranks", Woman's Suffrage: The Common Cause of Humanity, vol. 10, p. 132, June 28, 1918.
“Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'”
Kate Chopin (1850–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Imagine buying a toy for a child's pleasure and having him love the toy more than he loves you. Yet, isn't that what you've done with God?... Isn't it true that you have been guilty of ingratitude?... Have you ever humbly thanked God for the gift of life?”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My advice to anyone who loves to read or write is to love words first. Look at fonts and at print carefully. Ignore what they mean and just marvel at what they look like.”
Mark Getty (born 1960) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: City A.M.: "What I'm reading: Quickfire interview with Getty Images co-founder Mark Getty on his favourite books and the advice he'd give to aspiring writers" (25 June 2018)
“Everybody loves being recognized, in any way, large or small. ... Appreciation, applause, approval, respect—we all love it!”
Tom Peters (born 1942) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 17 May 2021
“Pause, fellow-sinner, fellow man, before that wonderful Being that you find now in the manger, now on the cross; follow His wonderful footsteps; dwell on His words; hear His prayers; gaze on His tears, — nay, on His flowing blood, until you fully and firmly believe, never to doubt it, or forget that God loves us when we do not love Him.”
Edward Norris Kirk (1802–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pretty little baby on the cabin floor Little hoss colt playin' 'round the door I love the girl with golden hair And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare.”
Jimmy Driftwood (1907–1998) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tennessee Stud" (1958)
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.”
Karen Armstrong (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She's a good-hearted woman in love with a good-timin' man. She loves him in spite of his ways she don't understand. With teardrops and laughter they pass through this world hand in hand, A good-hearted woman, lovin' a good-timin' man.”
Waylon Jennings (1937–2002) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Good Hearted Woman, title track from Good Hearted Woman, written with Willie Nelson (1972).
“He does not love me for my birth Nor for my lands so broad and fair; He loves me for my own true worth, And that is well," said Lady Clare.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘But you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’ ‘What would the third be?’ ‘Some have thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the Landlord.’”
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.”
William Blake (1757–1827) said by 1827 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.”
Emil Cioran (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love in animals, has not for its only object animals of the same species, but extends itself farther, and comprehends almost every sensible and thinking being. A dog naturally loves a man above his own species, and very commonly meets with a return of affection.”
David Hume (1711–1776) said by 1776 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pattern love-letter — "I — I — I — you — you — you ; you — you — you — I — I — I," garnished with loves and doves ad libitum.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The "liberal media"] love to be denounced from the right, and the right loves to denounce them, because that makes them look like courageous defenders of freedom and independence while, in fact, they are imposing all of the presuppositions of the propaganda system.”
Noam Chomsky (born 1928) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by Ira Shorr, February 11, 1996
“As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?”
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spontaneous love can reach the point of despair, shows that it is in despair, that even when it is happy it loves with the power of despair.”
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions for being bothered. ... Indifference is a form of sloth, and sloth in its turn is one of the symptoms of loveless-ness. One isn't lazy about what one loves. The problem is: how to love?”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I should cease to think of you at all for a prescribed time, I should find I could keep it up indefinitely. [...] You know that what you ask is impossible [...] I'm capable of nothing with regard to you," he went on, "but just of being infernally in love with you. If one's strong one loves only the more strongly.”
Henry James (1843–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember wondering smokily whether anyone ever loves a person. People seem to love dreams instead, and for the lucky ones, the person is close to the dream. But it’s a dream all the same, a sticky dream. You unload the person, and the dream stays with you.”
Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) first seen 1778 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Leopold Mozart, (Mannheim, 12 November 1778), from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling [W.W. Norton, 2000, ], p. 193.
“Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates (As curious ladies do, their public cates), This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings, The dreadful presence of our empress sings: Which grant for ever (O eternal Night) Till virtue flourish in the light of light.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”
Germaine Greer (born 1939) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article "Abortion", The Sunday Times (21 May 1972)
“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose’s, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To love life and men as God loves them — for the sake of their infinite possibilities, to wait like Him, to judge like Him, without passing judgment, to obey the order when it is given and never look back — Then He can use you — then, perhaps, He will use you.”
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 22 April 1956
“The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I swept the marble chambers, But you sent me down below. You kept me from believing Until you let me know: That I am not the one who loves — It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, You forbid delivery.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are my pride and joy And I just love you, little darlin' Like a baby boy loves his toy You've got kisses sweeter than honey And I work every day to give you all I know And that's why you're my pride and joy.”
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves — these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi (30 November 2007)
“Canst thou see God as the bodiless Infinite and yet love Him as a man loves his mistress? Then has the highest truth of the Infinite been revealed to thee. Canst thou also clothe the Infinite in one secret embraceable body and see Him seated in each and all of these bodies that are visible and sensible? Then has its widest and profoundest truth come also into thy possession.”
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For, once he thrilled with high romance And tuned to love his eager voice. Like any cavalier of France He wooed the maiden of his choice. And now deep in his weary heart Are sacred flames that whitely burn. He has of Heaven's grace a part Who loves, who is beloved in turn.”
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source