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“This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am she Who loves all beauty — yet I wither it.”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For tho' I know he loves me, To-night my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. the truth is WWE Universe loves John Morrison”
John Hennigan (born 1979) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/judgmentday/2009/may15-21/10229280
“They're all still on their honeymoon, Just read the dialogue balloon. Everyone loves you — Why should they not? And I'm the only one who knows That Disneyland's about to close. I don't suppose you'd give it a shot Knowing all that you've gotAre cigarettes and Red Vines. Just close your eyes, 'cause, baby — You never do know. And I'll be on the sidelines, With my hands tied, Watching the show.”
Aimee Mann (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to go incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called.”
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Alan Magee, in Paintings, Sculpture, Graphics., Forum Gallery, New York, 2004
“Your father bears an iron reed Filled with a flame that makes us bleed; Your kindly mother loves to tear Feathers and skin to deck her hair.”
Edward Andrade (1887–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All which a man loves, for which he leaves everything else but that, is his god, thus the glutton and drunkard has for his idol his own flesh, the fornicator has for his idol the harlot and the greedy has for his idol silver and gold, and so the same for every other sinner.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels; and those He especially loves and means to make the most resplendent, He hath oftenest His tools upon.”
Robert Leighton (bishop) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any genuine experience of God will send us out to serve those whom God loves. And working with people will make us aware of how much we are in need of God, of God’s help and guidance. This will gradually usher in a rhythm of prayer and work – prayer leading to work and work leading to prayer. So the integration of prayer and work takes place existentially.”
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kunnumpuram, K. (ed) (2006) Life in Abundance: Indian Christian Reflections on Spirituality. Mumbai: St Pauls
“Only a fool loves war. Or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps; Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.”
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mullahinsa, Drummeril, Black Shanco- Wherever I turn I see In the stony grey soil of Monaghan Dead loves that were born for me.”
Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.”
Mencius (372–289 BC) said by 289 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discourses, as quoted in "I Want to Know!" by Ivan Gogol Esipoff, The Etude, Vol. LXIII, No. 9 (September 1945), p. 496
“In the marketplace he told of honor, and how it is a higher law than any law. At the crossroads he talked of freedom, the freedom of the wind and clouds, and freedom that loves all things and is without guilt. Beside the city gates he told stories of the forgotten cities that were and of the forgotten cities that might be, if only men would forget them.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The God and His Man", Asimov's Science Fiction (1980); reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989); reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
“Our ideal is the statesman who knows and loves his country and who never makes the mistake of underestimating his employer, either in intelligence or strength.”
Margery Allingham (1904–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never dam the loves in your life, or they will overflow and destroy you”
Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had sworn on his father's honour, his mother's life, his brother's masculinity, his sister's purity and his prophet's beard that he would never set foot there again. God, knowing people, thinks little of honour or purity or even life, but vows made on his prophet he loves to confound.”
Ian McDonald (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To act nobly, a noble heart is not enough. It needs help from a sharp mind. Though the beginnings of ethical virtue lie in habituation, starting in our youth, and though the core of moral virtue is the right-shaping of our loves and hates, by means of praise and blame, reward and punishment, the perfection of character finally requires a certain perfection of the mind.”
“Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.”
Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo—even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.”
Richard Rohr (born 1943) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (2011)
“In schools throughout the world God's but described to you. Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.”
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844–1911) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Study of Avis (1877)
“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.”
Nicki Minaj (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They do not speak of boundless skies, of passing loves like silver clouds. They speak of cheerless towns, unwound: on hazy moors of muffled music.”
Fausto Cercignani (born 1941) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adagio (2004)
“God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But may God, who grants pardon and loves to save man, in his goodness, give strength to us and make prosperous the Holy See.”
Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503) said by 1503 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in, Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, Peter de Roo, 2:378 [http://www.attomelani.net/index.php/english/the-new-series-of-monaldi-sorti/the-doubts-of-salai/ Compare: For God loves saving, not condemning…
“What media loves is to focus on the candidates. What the American people, I believe, want is for us to focus on them, not the candidates, not anymore.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as interviewed by Amy Goodman, "Bernie Sanders Warns That Corporate Media Threatens Democracy," Alternet, (28 December 2016)
“The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.”
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can find out far more about a writer from his poems or fiction ..because in his stories or poems, his preoccupations, obsessions, moral standards, the quality of his intelligence, his loves, hates, aspirations, belief and fears.. insist on expression.”
Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here, a man and woman unite for life, but they include in their union all the loves they will live through in their lifetime. But over there, it’s all about changing wives and changing husbands, searching for that one perfect amor.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Microsoft loves Linux.”
Satya Nadella (born 1967) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nadella’s stance on Linux (2015)
“I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: The compleat violinist: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist, Summit Books (1 April 1986), p. 79
“Though a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.”
Vātsyāyana (500–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd like to confirm this statement. I gave the Parijatha flower to Krishna and he gave it to no one but Rukmini. Do you understand that he loves Rukmini more? When she heard this, Bama got angry with Krishna. She was jealous of Rukmini.”
“It was so much fun the other day. Dad took out all of our old toys that he found in the old barn. Now Estelle is playing with the old stuff and she loves it.”
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The soul that loves God finds rest only in God.”
Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) said by 700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Boy dressed as the devil: Everybody's afraid of the devil! Girl: Not me! Boy dressed as a ghost: How come? Girl: Because Jesus loves me and the devil is afraid of Jesus.”
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.”
Edward St. Aubyn (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly half of all Marylanders would leave the state if they could. As a lifelong Marylander who loves this state – that just breaks my heart.”
Larry Hogan (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To this day the Russian, though surrounded by a stern, unimaginative world of reality, loves to believe the seductive tales of antiquity. And long will it be before he will have been weaned from that belief.”
Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Repentance is attained by the saints with the Divine grace and it comes from the side of God who enlightens the hearts of those whom He loves. Seeking a formal forgiveness is the sin for lying. If I seek repentance of my self, I shall have need of repentance again.”
Rabia of Basra (710–801) said by 801 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is a very strong headed person and that shows on-screen (in matches)... He got success at an early age and still he is so grounded and humble. He loves his game. I want to learn that from him”
Harbhajan Singh (born 1980) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Actress Geeta Basra on Singh, quoted on sports.ndtv, "Harbhajan Singh's Passion and Humility a Source of Inspiration for Girlfriend Geeta Basra", June 17, 2015.
“In the beginning and the end, it’s all a crapshoot. The Cosmic Mind does play dice. Loves to gamble, in fact.”
Lisa Mason (1953–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whose is the world? Whose is thought? His who loves them.”
Vilhelm Ekelund (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bacchus loves the Sunny hills.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that loves Gold, starves more, the more he's fed.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Speaking of his horror roles] You know I can get away with murder. The audience loves me.”
Peter Lorre (1904–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, follow me.”
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From G. M. Trevelyan, Garibaldi's Defense of the Roman Republic [1907-1911]
“The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.”
Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Confessions of a Lost Dog (London: Griffith & Farran, 1867), pp. 15-16.