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“I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive,” said Alan apprehensively. “Oh, dear, no,” said the old man. “It would be no good charging you that sort of price for a love potion, for example. Young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. Otherwise they would not need a love potion.”
John Collier (1901–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The love of Ahl al-Bayt is our life. The love of Sahaba is our glory. The love of the Holy Prophet is our faith. We can't leave life, can't leave glory, can't leave faith. This is the Sunni creed, remember it.”
Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui (1936–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know that I'm not grieving because death is unnatural, I'm grieving because love has overfilled my banks, and I can no longer just pour it into this other person. When I'm angry, it's because I love something, and I want to defend it. When I am feeling fearful is because I love something.”
Adrienne Maree Brown (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is subversive, undermining the propaganda of narrow self-interest. Love emphasizes connection, responsibility and the joy we take in each other. Therefore love (as opposed to unthinking devotion) is a danger to the status quo and we have been taught to find it embarrassing.”
Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love leads to joy...The joy comes from love. To combat this thing, to combat the oil industry’s fear of losing profit, I have got to help to bring joy of the community’s love of everything that they are.”
Colette Pichon Battle wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the moments in which you do not love, are wasted moments of life which will never come back. Our call is to love. There is no meaning in life without love.”
Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m in love.” “You’re not in love,” Dad replied curtly. “You’ve been smoking too much dope.”… “Yes, I am,” said the psychologist. “No,” said Dad, ever rational. “You’ve just taken all your needs and desires and projected them onto this woman.” The shrink stared toward the lights of the South American city they were approaching. “Isn’t that what love is?” he replied.”
Dan Koeppel (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is still some love out there even though people try to deny and say there is no more love, there is still love.”
Adunni Ade (born 1976) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I’m a sucker for love – Adunni Ade Blueprint Newspapers, 18 March 2016.
“I love, love, love guitars and chords. I like things that are based on the instruments I originally learned—violin, flutes. I like things that sound raw and pure. When it comes to drums, I like them very percussion-heavy and in my own way. I enjoy hard kicks and tight snares.”
Tems (born 1995) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talking about what defines her sonically (February 2021)
“It’s not that I don’t wish to be married by now. I’m waiting for the right man. It’s not as if I haven’t dated anyone before, I don’t just want to discuss about my love life. But I believe love is everything. Love is magical to me.”
Yvonne Enakhena first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yvonne on why she hasn't married Vanguard (November 11,2011)
“It’s a hard industry. As long as you love acting, do it for the acting, not for making money. Be in it because you love playing other characters, and never stop growing. Study. You are going to learn a lot from everyone. Stretch yourself. It needs to be your passion, and not for fame. I have very lucky my whole life, and I just love acting so much. Embrace it and immerse yourself in it”
Judi Evans (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My latest song, “Ganja,” is a love song, love inspired it and the way I see it, love is intoxicating.”
Donna Adja first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donna Adja makes big comeback with ‘Ganja’, by Ayo Anikoyi, 14 August, 2022, Vanguard News, retrieved 9 December 2022
“The family is the heart of coexistence. The most profound experience of society that we all have is the family. If the family ceases to be the place of true love, love ceases to exist in the world and it is replaced by egoism. This is a catastrophe. The Church is taking very seriously the defense of the truth of the family, defending the truth of love exactly as Jesus manifested it.”
Fernando Sebastián Aguilar (1929–2019) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Collaborate With the Pope Is to Collaborate With Jesus, Says New Spanish Cardinal (25 February 2014) Zenit
“I love being by the beach because I participate in all water sports, especially surfing, I love music and I love books of all types.”
Kim Basinger (born 1953) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on what she loves doing in 2020.
“it’s really love more than hope…We hear so much of: ‘Well, do you have hope?’ Hope for what? For me it’s about helping people fall in love with the world again. We know as people the power we have when we really recognise our love for someone or something. Hmm! – there’s nothing that’s going to stand in our way. (The Guardian, 2024)”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love idealizes, or at least traditionally that has been one of the differential diagnoses: love idealizes, adds, but sex is just body meeting body, sometimes with love, sometimes with affection, sometimes with neither, just for the fun or satisfaction of it.”
Diana Trilling (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love learning about other artists’ processes so much; I don’t know why. It’s like a magpie-collecting hobby of mine. I find it incredibly inspiring, and just as a human being, I’m like, God, I love people. I love it when people devote themselves to something that is greater than themselves, and they work at it.”
Andrew Garfield (born 1983) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Interview with Andrew Garfield" in Believer (5 April 2022)
“Love God with everything you have and everything you are, and love those around you as you love yourself. The rest is just detail.”
Ingrid Andersen (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me my works are like my children, and I love them all equally...I love all colors and every one of my paintings has something I like. It is like my children, each one of them has something I like, and although they all are wonderful and different gifts, I love them equally.”
Alfredo Arreguín (1935–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love starvation may camouflage itself in physical and mental ills, in delinquency, sometimes in death. In a family, love starvation begets love starvation in one generation after another until a rebel in that family breaks the malevolent chain. If you find yourself in such a family, BE THAT REBEL!”
Laura Huxley (1911–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is harmful to reject a human being; it is harmful to be rejected. When we do not respect or love ourselves we commit both offenses. ("Love Yourself as You Love Your Neighbor")”
Laura Huxley (1911–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Jesus Christ, was revealed a God of love, who preaches and sends out love. And that love must be shown to men through the word, the sacraments and charity.”
Juan del Río Martín (1947–2021) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Next Church doctor is model for evangelization (26 January 2012) Catholic News Agency
“I believe in love, but I don’t believe that everybody gets to experience true love. I just think not everybody is fortunate enough to experience true love.”
Jemima Osunde (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But don't think about me anymore, | I told you to aim: | love breaks the heart. | Shoot! Shoot! Shoot, Love! | Don't think about it anymore, | what do you want to wait for? | Love breaks the heart. | Shoot! Shoot! Shoot, straight here. (from Spaccacuori, n. 2)”
Samuele Bersani (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't have a real family | and my home is Piazza Grande, | to those who believe me I take love and love I give, as much as I have. || With me there are no generous women, | I steal love in Piazza Grande, | and thank goodness there aren't any bandits like me here. (from Piazza Grande)”
Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be a missionary today I think first one must have a deep love for the people of that he's going to serve because it's a boat service it's about service of God's people and if we are faithful to the gospel Jesus always had a special love for for the little ones for the poor the old cast the elderly and I think missionary must try to always manifest that love for them.”
Martin William Currie (born 1943) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Archbishop Martin - Tastes of Heaven 2018 (10 May 2018) Catholic Missions In Canada
“I love you, I will love you forever, my love…”
Elsa Iradukunda first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yanabaye DJ mu bukwe bwe! Amafoto ateye ubwuzu utabonye y’ubukwe bwa Prince Kid na Miss ElsaIsimbi(September 02,2023)
“We have to tell stories that make people fall in love with wildlife. You don't protect what you don't love, and you can't love what you don't know. That's why we make 'Wildlife Warriors'—to show the beauty and the drama of our natural world.”
Paula Kahumbu (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love's got a hold on me, baby, Feels just like a ball and chain. Now, love's just draggin' me down, baby, yeah, Feels like a ball and chain. I hope there's someone out there who could tell me Why the man I love wanna leave me in so much pain. Yeah, maybe, maybe you could help me, come on, help me!”
Big Mama Thornton (1926–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love challenges. I love solving difficult problems. I love to tread where everyone else dreads.”
Francisca Oladipo (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That a woman chose or is chosen not just for the roses are red and her shapely shape does not mean real deep love won’t develop as the marriage grows, after all the marriages that take off on ‘plenty love’ have been known to lose the love when the vicissitudes of life show up.”
Funke Egbemode wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fiction is fueled by love and anger—my love for my father and his own love for his family and country fueled Lyrics Alley.”
Leila Aboulela (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love people, love yourself, love the world.”
Bolaji Ogunmola first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bolaji on world in 2023
“My feminism is rooted in love for Woman and love for myself. Love for humanity as well because feminism for me is directed not just at the ending of sexist oppression, but at ending all oppression including homophobic, transphobic, racist, capitalist oppression, etc.”
Godiva Akullo (born 1901) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inspiring African Feminists: Interview with Godiva Akullo. African Feminism. (November 22, 2017)
“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror— The wide brown land for me!”
Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Core of My Heart" (1908); "My Country" (1911)
“I love France and England not with a political love, because I don't know anything about politics, but an esthetic one: I love their literatures, poetry, and some individuals.”
May Ziadeh (1886–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love to work. I passionately love to work. I love to feel my hand fit into the glove of some other character. I find a huge freedom — time stops for me. I’m not as crazy as I used to be, but I’m still a little crazy.”
Donald Sutherland (1935–2024) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on the film Without Limits, on Charlie Rose (10 September 1998) [@12:08]
“An actor or actress, has to find that special person. It is not love that will bond you. Forget love, love dies. What sustains the marriage is companionship.”
Ramsey Nouah (born 1970) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Real reason my wife and I don’t do red carpet — Ramsey Nouah. 27 January 2017, Premium Times Newspaper.
“Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.”
Mariama Bâ (1929–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Mariam Ba
“Jesus was incarnated in human condition to save us and died on the cross out of love; it is this love that we must take to others as well. Those who have received the faith are obliged by the same faith to share it with others, there is no Christianity without love and service.”
Martin Anwel Mtumbuka (born 1957) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mgr. Mtumbuka visits one of Malawi's most neglected communities as as part of the celebration of Mission Month (27 October 2018) Fides News Agency
“Love had mobilized my entire being, love ruled me like a tyrant, and love would allow for no other master. (p67)”
Gail Hareven (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only in love they happy prove Who love what most deserves their love.”
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) said by 1650 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But with my mum, I got everything I needed. I got the father’s love, the mother’s love and the sister’s love. I remember my younger days, when it rains, my mum will say, "what are you people doing in school? Just sit down/”
Abimbola Fashola (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What most of you regard as mere love messages should know that this was not just love messages. This boy was being used by some selfish individuals in a mission to lure me with love and kill me.”
Sylvia Rwabogo (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not need to be a communist to love my country! I love my country even though I am not a communist. I want its progress. Even though you won the war, even though you won the elections, you cannot persecute those who hold different political views from you. I think differently from you, but I love my country. I do not apologize because I haven’t done anything wrong.”
Musine Kokalari (1917–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On homogenitoriality] Sometimes I ask myself questions too. Here we are talking about love towards children, who have a right to love. That can come from a man and a woman, of course, but I ask myself: why can't that love come from two men or two women and instead be given by seven nuns? This is a question I ask myself. Why not? Why not?”
Paolo Bonolis (born 1961) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ciao Darwin 8, aired March 22, 2019, on Mediaset; as quoted in Federico Boni Ciao Darwin 8, Paolo Bonolis: ‘un bimbo cresciuto da due etero o da due gay, non c’è differenza’, Gay.it, 23 March 2019
“Because people who did, they’re going through a very hard time at the moment because the surgeries have got very negative effects on them. So, I’m not ashamed of who I am anymore. I love myself. And I want to tell intersex people that you can’t expect people to love you if you don’t love yourself first, and to live your life because No Body Is Shameful”
Nthabiseng Mokoena wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you have a sense of low self-esteem, and when you achieve success, there’s relief more than arrogance. To love someone is such a feeling of power, because even if you don’t get that love back, you still have it. It could be a weakness, it could be strength. It’s how you look at it. I look at the love I had as a source of great strength.”
Karan Johar (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We love our neighbour because of the image of God in them, and as able to be our associates in beatitude. Sinners and our enemies therefore may not be excluded from this common love, or from the ordinary exterior marks of it, and we must be prepared to show them more special love when necessary.”
Edward Gilpin Bagshawe (1829–1915) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Notes on Christian Doctrine (1896)
“Christmas is a day of blessing on which the Divine love and His reign over the world have been revealed. We should share joy and practice love with the marginalized and the neglected. When we share what we have been given, our love will not be dried out but more enriched.”
John Choi Young-su (1942–2009) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Light comes into the world ” Korean Bishops' messages for Christmas 2007 (21 December 2007) Fides News Agency