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“I am a young woman who loves family and God. I am a workaholic and a perfectionist of sorts. Haha! I love reading, listening to music, and watching movies/series. Career wise, I am an actress, writer, corporate emcee, and the Public Relations Manager at StarTimes DTV Uganda.”
Cleopatra Koheirwe (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing about me is that I love variety because God loves variety.”
Anendlessocean wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Parents should support their children in doing what they love and not just what they want for them as parents because there is an 80% possibility of a child being successful at what he/she loves than what the parents want for the child.”
Ruger (born 1999) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Parents should let children do what they love, not what they want –Ruger. 25 May 2022, Punch Newspaper.
“He hangs in the hall by his black cravat, The ladies faint, and the children holler: Only my Daddy could look like that, And I love my Daddy like he loves his Dollar.”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: American Primitive", st. 3. Poems, 1947–1957 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1957), p. 6
“The world loves to connect with truth, peace and love.”
Richard Mofe-Damijo (born 1961) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On why authenticity has sustained his career. The Punch, 25 July 2021.
“Everybody underestimates. And then there are people that think, am I a freak? Am I kinky? Is this strange? And I always say, "No." Find the person who loves to do what you love to do, and then you'll have the best relationship.”
Cheryl Cohen wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was easier to feed 500 people for me than it was for me to say to someone, ‘God loves you’. So I had to devise ways and means to show people the love I knew they desperately needed.”
Yolanda George-David wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I started to love football in Bouake when I was younger," he explained. "My oldest brother, he loves football, and he was playing for a team on the street close to the community. After that, my other brother Kolo started playing and I followed his path.”
Yaya Touré (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I really like Totti: he is an extraordinary player who deserved the Ballon d'Or. It's also great that he wanted to stay with Roma for his entire career: anyone who loves soccer cannot help but love Totti.”
Gianni Morandi (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would tell them to follow their hearts but they have to love someone who loves you back and God has to be in the picture or else it won’t work, it will never last.”
Anjanette Abayari (born 1970) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2024/01/30/2329423/anjanette-abayari-finds-faith-and-family-bliss
“What’s important is not who you love but who loves you.”
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the prism through which we see her.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing is the love of my life, so I'm grateful that I had an example of someone who also loves it entirely in really close proximity to me.”
Gracie Abrams (born 1999) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ogunnaike, Nikki (July 27, 2022). "Gracie Abrams on Her Laid-Back Personal Style". Harper's Bazaar.
“I mean, just having this little person that loves you no matter what. Her little gummy smile; just watching her learn and grow is really exciting. You know people say you don’t know love until you have a kid and you think you do but it’s so 100 percent true. I thought I knew what it was but I had no idea. She’s the best part of my day every day and it’s just really life changing.”
Masika Kalysha (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.”
Marguerite de Navarre (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know I only love those to my taste, but Buddha loves even people he does not like, guiding them to be full of wisdom and compassion. That’s why I choose to follow Buddha’s teachings！”
Richard Gombrich (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.”
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature is fine in love, and where 't is fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Love is our true essence. This love does not have any limitations of caste, creed, colour or religion. We are all beads strung on the same thread of love. Awaken that unity and spread the message of love and service.” Frontpage of an official website”
Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be strong to love, O Heart! Love knows not wrong; Didst thou love — creatures even, Life were not long; Didst thou love God in heaven, Thou wouldst be strong!”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wept that all must die — "Yet Love," I cried, "doth live, and conquer death —" And Time passed by, And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breath Ere Death was nigh.More bitter far than all It was to know that Love could change and die — Hush! for the ages call "The Love of God lives through eternity, And conquers all!”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m gonna rock you baby to sleep I’m gonna make you crazy over me I’m gonna hold you like you’ve never been held before And love you till you tell me you can’t love anymore I’m gonna shake your emotion right down to your soul And then I’m gonna love you all over in and out of control If this is how love is supposed to feel Baby I know I’ve fallen head over heels I’m gonna rock you baby.”
Toby Keith (1961–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then the rainstorm came over me And I felt my spirit break I had lost all of my belief, you see And realized my mistake But time threw a prayer to me And all around me became still I need love, love's divine Please forgive me, now I see that I've been blind Give me love, love is what I need to help me know my name.”
Seal (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we must love God, and love him more than ourselves and our neighbor, it is because love exists before us and because we are issued from it; we love by virtue of our very existence.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.”
Laura Riding (1901–1991) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lives of Wives (London: Cassell, 1939)
“And thus love is founded otherwhile upon good prouffitable and this love endureth as longe as he seeth his prouffit. And herof men saye a comyn proverbe in England that love lasteth as longe as the money endureth and whan the money faylleth than there is no love.”
William Caxton (1422–1492) first seen 1474 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Bk. III (1474)
“Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us---which is really just love for ourselves.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me. I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me. And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true.I love how the garden grows And I love the garden rose.”
Becky Stark (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tryin' to get control, Pressure's takin' its toll. Stuck in the middle zone, I just want you alone. My guessing game is strong, Way too real to be wrong. Caught up in your show, Yeah, at least now I know.It wasn't love, it wasn't love, It was a perfect illusion (Perfect illusion). Mistaken for love, it wasn't love, It was a perfect illusion (Perfect illusion). You were a perfect illusion.”
Lady Gaga (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wine of Love is music, And the feast of Love is song: And when Love sits down to the banquet, Love sits long:Sits long and rises drunken, But not with the feast and the wine; He reeleth with his own heart, That great, rich Vine.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1834) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.”
Jon Anderson (born 1944) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lyrics of "Loved by the Sun", on the soundtrack of the film Legend (1986).
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.”
Hal David (1921–2012) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What the World Needs Now is Love" (1965); this song was actually written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and offered to other singers who initially passed it up. It became DeShannon's first number one hit.
Also quoted by: Jackie DeShannon (misattributed)
“Why freedom? If we accept that God is love, and that it is human beings who are to respond to this love, the explanation is simple. Love cannot be forced, ordered, or made obligatory. It is necessarily free. If God liberates, it is because he expects and hopes that we will come to know him and love him.”
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.”
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) said by 1498 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 378
“What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.”
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shower the people you love with love. Show them the way that you feel. Things are gonna work out fine if you only will (do as I say, yeah). Shower the people you love with love. Show them the way that you feel. Things are gonna be much better if you only will.”
James Taylor (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith is the nail which fastens the soul to Christ; and love is that grace that drives the nail to the head. Faith takes hold of Him, and love helps to keep the grip. Christ dwells in the heart by faith, and He burns in the heart by love, like a fire melting the breast. Faith casts the knot, and love draws it fast.”
Thomas Erskine (1788–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's Love, Brother Love, say Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies. And ev'ryone goes, 'cause everyone knows Brother Love's show.”
Neil Diamond (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like love we don't know where or why Like love we can't compel or fly Like love we often weep Like love we seldom keep”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To J. S., stanza 4, from Poems (1832)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“I love Love — though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee — Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”
Erica Jong (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn that to love is the one way to know, Or God or man: it is not love received That maketh man to know the inner life Of them that love him; his own love bestowed Shall do it.”
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tell me some true things about fighting.' 'Tell me you love me.' 'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.'”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source