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“Also I should like to explain how a lover of free birds can endure to keep them in confinement. Each inhabitant of a in my house has been liberated from the positive discomforts of a , and besides the wearied effort to make their lives happy and as free as possible in a room, the moment one shows a desire for the world outside my windows, he is gladly allowed to depart.”
Harriet Mann Miller (1831–1918) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (227 pages; 1st edition 1885)
“I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?”
Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that being a musician is like responding to a lover. You go where you’re most embraced.”
Melody Gardot (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Châtrik! Lover of the cloud-clad skies, a thirst, a longing for the nectar drop! Thou hast the soul of a disciple that pants for Hari Nâm!”
Puran Singh (1881–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my culture blue is so important for a young man.., the first date... is to dress blue. If you wear blue, you go to... your lover... everyone will see you walking through the landscape, and then someone is dating this girl ...I wanted to dress this pavilion with... my favorite color.”
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every man is a lover and follows the Muse.”
Ben Obumselu (1930–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a poet, a performer, a published author, an actress, a producer, a tv presenter, I am also a mom, a friend, a daughter a sister and a lover”
Lebogang Mashile (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one in the end—not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart.”
Brian Doyle (American writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since I was born I was a lover of sound, radio precisely and it was my dream to start a media house which I have.”
“I was definitely a music lover as a kid. We had a home studio in the crib, so me and my brothers would always go downstairs and play in the studio. I was the class clown, but at the same time I always did my work — so that’s where the good grades came from. I think the good grades came from me being competitive. If I feel like somebody’s trying to compete with me, I go even harder.”
DDG (rapper) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m Black, I’m a mother and I’m a lover. Those are my labels. The rest of it is yet unfolding”
Niecy Nash-Betts (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With any performance, you need chemistry. It doesn’t matter whether you’re playing a lover or a friend or a foe; if you have chemistry with the person you’re playing with it makes the performance so much better. It’s a partner dance, after all. Even if you’re combat fighting, it’s still a partner dance.”
Deborah Ayorinde (born 1987) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deborah Ayorinde: Meet the rising star of ‘Riches’;By Adam Davidson on 02 Dec 2022
“The lover shineth among his fellows as in heaven The brilliant moon among the host of stars.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A bird flies with its wings towards its nest, The wings of a man are his aspiration and aim. If a lover be befouled with good and evil Yet regard not these; regard rather his aspiration, Though a falcon be all white and unmatched in form, If he hunts mice, he is contemptible and worthless, And if an owl fixes his affection on the king, He is a falcon in reality; regard not his outward form.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Sufi is as it were, the ‘son of the season’ But the pure is exalted above season and state, Religious raptures depend on feelings and will But the pure one is regenerated by the breath of Jesus, You are a lover of your own raptures, not of me, You turn to me only in hope of experiencing raptures.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving — it doesn't matter, Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, Come, come again, come.”
Rumi (misattributed) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sy Safransky (ed.) Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations (1990) p. 67
“A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment.”
Ninon de L'Enclos (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?”
Sir John Suckling (1609–1641) said by 1641 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“No oath too binding for a lover.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am a lover of nature, science and art”
Roslyn Mould wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My ultimate intuitive clue in philosophy is that "God is love" and that the idea of God is definable as that of the being worthy to be loved with all one’s heart, mind, soul, and entire being.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne (1991), edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, p. 700
“He loved his kind, but sought the love of few, And valued old opinions more than new.”
Park Benjamin Sr. (1809–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My father loved us dearly and deeply. There were eleven of us and our love for him was full of admiration. We held him in a kind of respectful awe, so powerful and formidable did he seem. I soon learned that beneath the exterior of a rough cavalryman he had a very good heart.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.”
Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Nuremberg, Germany - 1948.
“Those we loved, they’re dead. Faces behind hands, shy shawls dropped, modestly awry. Those we love, they’re married.”
András Petőcz (born 1959) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A BANAL POEM, SUBJECT: LOVE (1984).
“The world is fill'd with folly and sin, And Love must cling where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved you ere I knew you: know you now, And, having known you, love you better still.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1525 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. ii, Book viii: From 1525 to 1789, "Vanini", p. 225.
“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.”
Erik Erikson (1902–1994) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Childhood and Society (1950)
“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fatherhood was about your dad trading in the old glint in his eye—what he loved to do—for the new glint in his eye: his love for you.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is much to be known,” said Adaon, “and above all much to be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men have social needs. They have a need for other people; they have a need to love and be loved.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reverend Lawson:You lured those boys in here and made filth of them! Bob: We don't think human bodies is filth until they're corpses, Reverend Lawson! Bill: We loved every inch of those boys. Bob: Every chance we got. Bill: And we sent them away to war, since they had to go, with every surface of them— Bob: Tinglin' with kisses an' love.”
Robert Patrick (playwright) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.”
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As much as I loved the ideas, I excelled at experimental failure, I found new ways to make experiments not work. I would mess up PCRs, add the wrong buffers, northerns, westerns, southerns. I would make them not work in quite ingenious ways, and I realized slowly, over the course of those years, that the secret to being a great scientist is to love the manual labor of it.”
Jonah Lehrer (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I really liked that girl.” “Not loved, evidently,” I observed. “N-n-no. I supposed not. Though what is love, anyway? Doesn’t it have so infinitely many kinds and degrees and mutations and quantum jumps that— Never mind.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.”
Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well you could have been lonely every night now, Could have cried a whole lot more, been a little bit blue Oh, you could have been lonely, for your one and only, You could have loved me as much as I love you.”
Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We Could Have Been Sweethearts (You Could Have Been Lonely)" from Spin of the Wheel (1990) · Video performance
“No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved — two conditions seldom fulfilled.”
Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure. You must have genius or a prodigious usefulness if you will hide the want of measure.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 1, 1939", ll. 62–66