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“China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 57).
“Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 285).
“Ooh, little boy, in between changing fathers. Little girl has to live without Mother. They don't understand why they seem not to need them, Although all they need is a loving hand.”
Amber (singer) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: More Time for a Child" (written by Amber's sister, Anne-Fleur Cremers), My Kind of World (2004).
“Oh yeah, make up your mind, honey, You're playing with me, hey hey hey, Make up your mind, darling, You're playing with me, come on now! Now either be my loving man, I said-a let me honey, let me be, yeah!”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.”
Grace Slick (born 1939) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) edited by Robert Andrews
“Now you play the loving woman; I'll play the faithful man. But just don't look too close into the palm of my hand.”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the colors of the world should be Loving each other wholeheartedly, Yes, it's alright, Take my message to your brother and tell him twice, Spread the word and try to teach the man Who's hating his brother when hate won't do, When we're all the same, 'Cause the blood inside me is inside of you.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Mitch Albom (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well I'm shameless when it comes to loving you. I'd do anything you want me to I'd do anything at all. And I'm standing here for all the world to see There ain't that much left of me That has very far to fall.”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She's gonna listen to her heart. It's gonna tell her what to do. She might need a lot of loving, But she don't need you.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you see the world you see God. There is no seeing God, apart from the world. Beyond the world to see God is to be God. The light by which you see the world, which is God, is the tiny little spark: ‘I am,’ apparently so small, yet the first and the last in every act of knowing and loving.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Little Girl Lost (1974) by Al DiOrio, p. 9
“While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, it will certainly be bad, but you may be sure I shall be still a loving husband, and we shall make the best of it together.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (12 March 1865])
“Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.”
Ba Jin (1904–2005) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Living legend: Ba Jin" in News Guangdong (26 November 2003)
“I cannot come to be fully human unless I have received myself as a gift and accepted myself as a gift of somebody who has, as we say today, distorted me the way you distorted me by loving me.”
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is an important moment in the life of our nation, and I suppose above all it is a wonderful moment for a warm and loving couple who have got a brand new baby boy.”
David Cameron (born 1966) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks on the Royal birth (22 July 2013).
“Better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.”
Moby (born 1965) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One problem with cultural conservatism," essay included with the compilation album I Like to Score (1997)
“The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.”
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.”
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping, Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving, My soul constantly hums, unheard by any: God, God, God!”
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't trust midgets, particularly gay-loving midgets.”
Bill Allred first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio From Hell (May 30, 2006)
“While existing on the absolute fringes of our tolerant and peace loving societies, terrorists in our region receive institutional nurturing and support. It is this embedded nature of terrorists that make it a much more sinister threat.”
Hamid Karzai (born 1957) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hamid Karzai. 'Terror single biggest threat' The Hindustan Times; New Delhi. 02 Aug 2008.
“When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much (1990) by Anne Wilson Schaef, entry for June 26: "Living Life Fully
“Heterosexism: The belief in the inherent superiority of one pattern of loving and thereby its right to dominance.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical...”
Georges Rouault (1871–1958) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Soliloques. (1944)
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me?”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Persian Version," lines 1–2, from Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques (1946)
“Fear in your heart cries to the loving-cup: Sorrow to sorrow as the sparks fly upward. The log groans and confesses There is one story and one story only.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946)
“He is as loving and tender as a child, but strong and sturdy as a rock. When on Sundays I ride him through the lanes in the outskirts of the town, slow-moving countrymen, dressed in their Sunday clean, watch him a while, speculatively: "He is like steel," they say. Steel, yes. Steel and moon silver at the same time.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 1 : Platero, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
“There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one. (p124)”
Octavia Butler (1947–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think it is time for all peace-loving people of this world to start pondering where all this leads. I think it's high time that the weapons in this part of the world, and all over the world, were silenced.”
Ratko Mladić (1943–2026) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From interview with Robert Block, 1995
“Loving—if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things—mind it, mind it!”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.”
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Anything Is Possible: Humor and Wisdom for Success and Prosperity (1997) by Meiji Stewart, p. 73
“If we consider the attitude of the Lord Himself, we understand that He accepted the free loving services of women for Himself and His Apostles and that women were among His disciples and most intimate confidants. Yet He did not grant them the priesthood, not even to His mother, Queen of Apostles, who was exalted above all humanity in human perfection and fullness of grace.”
Edith Stein (1891–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.”
Edith Stein (1891–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“President Bush and thousands of others, politicians and preachers, are making speeches and lying in their teeth, all agreeing that they can't explain such tragedies, but they're just certain a loving God had nothing to do with the massacre. They say, evil did it, like Star Wars, some evil force.”
Fred Phelps (1929–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are committed to respecting the right of others to be different, to choose what to believe and how to decide. We will, however, learn to help others let go of and transform fanaticism and narrowness through loving speech and compassionate dialogue” p. 104”
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who are loving toward each other set up their marriages so that it is possible for both partners to get what they need from life and so that no one is expected to give up his needs to meet those of his spouse. And when their partner meets one of their needs they accept it as a gift, instead of viewing each unmet one as if it were a betrayal.”
Merle Shain (1935–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same.”
Merle Shain (1935–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Good Days (1934)
“The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“4900. There is more pleasure in loving, than in being belov'd.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And then who comes along to save the day? A couple of tool-belt wearing, golf-loving, Dinah Shore weekend lesbians sent from heaven.”
Kathy Griffin (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He said to me once he had given up a normal life for the cyborgs. As if he could only create life if he gave up loving and living." (Yod about Avram, twenty-eight: HOW CAN WE TELL THE DANCER FROM THE DANCE?)”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thank you, you Commie, homo-loving sons of guns.”
Sean Penn (born 1960) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Acceptance speech for the Best Actor award at the 81st Academy Awards ceremony (2009-02-22)