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“Few men, nevertheless, can have unison in many matters without being a copy of each other, if each follow his natural turn of mind. But in general a person will not wholly follow it. He loves to imitate. We often imitate the same person without perceiving it, and we neglect our own good qualities for the good qualities of others, which generally do not suit us.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Liberal is distinguished from the Conservative and the Radical, not only by his basic philosophy but by his methods. Never does he believe that a good end justifies and evil means. He seeks to find everything that binds men together, rather than what divides them, for he loves persuasion and detests coercion.”
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.”
Wendell Berry (1934–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mark: I have to acknowledge the fact that the Australian Public loves you, they admire your tenacity and they know that you're a great girl. I'm not going to say what I think... What I am going to say is that it's been 3 weeks since we had our producer meeting where you said that you didn't know what type of cd that you wanted to perform.... What kind of record are you going to make?”
Hayley Jensen (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die”
Morrissey (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The novelist, thinks Sam, perspiring beneath blankets, must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all. The feminine in his nature cries out for proof he is a man; he loves himself and therefore despises all that he is.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you, and remember this always, those of us with something urgent to say, we give everything.”
William Kapell (1922–1953) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Claudia Cassidy, "In Memory of William Kapell, Who Left Us Richer in Music", Chicago Tribune (October 30, 1953).
“He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.”
John of the Cross (1542–1591) said by 1591 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm, And age, like distance, lends a double charm.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11
“We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis [pointing at blackboard] of those two words, "Social Security".”
Glenn Beck (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace.”
Natan Sharansky (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because God loves us, because He wants us to grow into truth, He must necessarily make demands on us and must also correct us”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics," Zenit.org, Nov. 19, 2004
“Let us have a universal spirit that loves and protects all creation and helps all things grow and develop. To unify mind and body and become one with the universe is the ultimate purpose of our study. Four major principles to unify mind and body:”
Koichi Tohei (1920–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I married a woman who loves to camp and I am what you would call indoorsy. I'm surprised we can still get people to camp. "Hey, wanna burn a couple of vacation days sleeping on the ground outside?" "Uh, No!" "What if I told you you get to crap standing up in the woods?" "I still wouldn't wanna go." "You'll wake up freezing covered in a rash." "… All right, I'll go.”
Jim Gaffigan (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify.”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Alexander Lukashenko, as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus at belarus.by (1 December 2009) the official website of the Republic of Belarus
“The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.”
John Fowles (1926–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man can suffer both severely and for a long time; Nature, who loves us most tenderly, has so constituted us as to make pain either endurable or short.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mankind is born for mutual assistance, anger for mutual ruin: the former loves society, the latter estrangement.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one loves to do good, the other to do harm; the one to help even strangers, the other to attack even its dearest friends.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the huddled towers, Over a somnolent whisper of loves and hates, The slow wind flows, drearily streams and falls, With a mournful sound down rain-dark walls.”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am like a person who has placed poison in one of two glasses before a person he loves—and looks back upon his act with horror and incredulity—but still does not know from which glass the person will drink.”
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Princeton, April 2, 1951
“To be conformed with the one who became human means that we may be the human beings that we really are. Pretension, hypocrisy, compulsion, forcing oneself to be something different, better, more ideal than one is - all are abolished. God loves the real human being. God became a real human being.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man loves God who hates his kind,”
Max Heindel (1865–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“NFS loves everyone.”
Theo de Raadt (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) first seen 1866 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 7 January 1866
“Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your loves.”
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang: “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long!”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She went away, she cut me like a knife. Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life. In just a glance, down here on magic street, Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The person who loves for the sake of God, and detests and despises for the sake of God, and gives for the sake of God, is among those whose faith has achieved completion.”
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) said by 733 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've got someone who loves me tonight. I've got over a thousand dollars in the bank, And I'm all right.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every man loves what he is good at.”
Thomas Shadwell (1642–1692) said by 1692 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well fitted for friendship is he whom men have not disgusted with mankind, and who, believing and knowing that there are a few noble men, a few great minds, a few delightful souls scattered through the crowd, never tires of searching for them, and loves them even before he has found them.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man who truly loves his work returns to it after the briefest rest with a curious kind of voluptuousness. When he is completely absorbed in his job, the end of work seems like the end of life.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who has not spent hours, days, or years with someone he loves cannot know what happiness is, for he is unable to imagine a protracted miracle like this — one which makes out of ordinary sights and events the most enchanted existence.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.”
Clive James (1939–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah it's wrong, but God loves Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you Even when all else fail, God support you.”
Nas (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“contempt loves the silence it thrives in the dark with fine winding tendrils that strangle the heart they say that promises sweeten the blow but I don't need them no, I don't need them”
Natalie Merchant (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have denied and do deny the malicious stories about cat-strangling and harming animals and challenged to a duel anyone who spread such allegations—for I find these particular allegations, involving cruelty to animals, quite detestable, being, like Savitri Devi and Adolf Hitler, a person who loves and respects animals.”
David Myatt (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Encyclopedia of White Power (2000), p. 217
“The heart loves repose and the soul contemplation, but the mind needs action.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know she loves the sunrise No longer sees it with her sleeping eyes And I know that when she said she's gonna try Well it might not work because of other ties and I know she usually has some other ties And I wouldn't want to break 'em, nah, I wouldn't want to break 'em Maybe she'll help me to untie this but Until then well, I'm gonna have to lie too”
Jack Johnson (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language.”
Kim Jong-il (1941–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unification of the fatherland is an act of supreme patriotism" (1970s), quoted in Kim Jong Il Handbook (2011) by International Business Publications USA
“You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.”
Ernest Renan (1823–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source