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“Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The bravest are the tenderest,-- The loving are the daring.”
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) said by 1878 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am happy to be back in Australia. I have seen many things and many places, and although every man can be forgiven for loving his own country best, I believe it is an impartial assessment of the facts to say that I have not seen any country or any people better than my own.”
John Curtin (1885–1945) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on return to Australia (26 June 1942)
“I, who loved and knew you, In the city that slew you, Still hunger on, and thirst, and climb, proud-hearted and alone:Serpent-fears enfold me, Syren-visions hold me, And, like a wave, I gather strength, and gathering strength, I moan; Yea, the pale moon beckons, Still I follow, aching, And gather strength, only to make a louder moan, in breaking!”
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly, Though winds blew great guns, still he ’d whistle and sing; Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly, And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king.”
Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) said by 1814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sailor’s Consolation. A song with this title, beginning, "One night came on a hurricane", was written by William Pitt, of Malta, who died in 1840.
“No doubt history will say that Eisenhower was a soldier. For my part, I will remember, above all, his goodness. He was a fundamentally good man who knew how to be loved by the Americans. I was fond of Ike.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”
Eric Rücker Eddison (1882–1945) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
“I never loved nobody fully Always one foot on the ground And by protecting my heart truly I got lost in the sounds I hear in my mind All these voices I hear in my mind all these words I hear in my mind all this music And it breaks my heart It breaks my heart...”
Regina Spektor (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dark corridor of that Central Avenue Hotel, the sinister Negro, the black room and the hopheads, and now the girl who loved a man who hated her. It was all of the same cloth, perverse, drugged in fascinating ugliness. Midnight on Temple Street, a can of marijuana between us. She lay there, her long fingers dangling to the carpet, waiting, listless, tired.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lo, one who loved true honour more than fame, A real goodness, not a studied name.”
William Alexander (1567–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.”
Bryan Procter (1787–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: Bryan W. Procter
“I loved: and in the morning sky, A magic castle upward grew!”
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.”
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.”
Elaine Paige (born 1948) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Angie Davidson Interviews Elaine Paige" by Angie Davidson in lupus.org.uk (2005)
“I loved it. We would rehearse in this dark theatre, unaware of the sunny day outside, and be immersed in the magic of creating something from our imaginations.”
Elaine Paige (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the things which Ausonius reveals unconsciously that win him liking, not those which he sets out to celebrate with a kind of innocent pomp: not the chair of rhetoric at twenty-five, nor the imperial tutorship in his fifties, nor the consulship at sixty-nine, but that he loved and taught rhetoric all his life, and kept his simplicity.”
Ausonius (310–395) said by 395 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Helen Waddell, Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943), p. 291.
“Some higher incentive must, and will, supersede the greed for gold. The involuntary aspiration born in man to make the most of one's self, to be loved and appreciated by one's fellow-beings, to "make the world better for having lived in it," will urge him on the nobler deeds than ever the sordid and selfish incentive of material gain has done.”
Lucy Parsons (1851–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved Barack just the way he was.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lookin' so innocent, I might believe you if I didn't know. Could'a loved you all my life, If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold. And you got your share of secrets, And I'm tired of being last to know. And now you're asking me to listen 'Cause it's worked each time before.”
Taylor Swift (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When President Bush goes on television and says certain cultures hate us for our democracy and freedom, he's just wrong. Everywhere I went in the Middle East, everyone told me how much they loved America and Americans; the hatred is directed at American policy.”
Jim Rogers (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 占·羅傑斯 (zh)
“(on her DUI) I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would. And unfortunately, I can't, but this is my way of paying my dues and taking responsibility and being an adult.”
Nicole Richie (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's important to be open to new experiences. I recently went to Disneyland for the first time in 20 years. There were three of us 60-year-olds on a rollercoaster, screaming our heads off. It was white knuckles all the way and I loved it!”
Lulu (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt I knew thee, in thy glorious youth, And loved thy vast face, white as truth; I stood where thunderbolts were wont To smite thy Titan-fashioned front, And heard dark mountains rock and roll; I saw the lightning's gleaming rod Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll The awful autograph of God!”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigraph, Ch. 1 : Mount Shasta; this appears as "To Mount Shasta" in In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890), p. 126
“However long Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians struggle to find multiple meanings in this text, the dominant seems to be this: Abraham’s unquestioning willingness to heed gods command to sacrifice the thing he loved most is what qualified him to become the father of what are called still the Abrahamic faiths.”
Susan Neiman (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His friends he loved. His fellest earthly foes— Cats—I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.”
William Watson (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's what I hope to do with acting — be the chameleon and not get stuck in a type.”
Julia Stiles (born 1981) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vanity Fair, August 1998.
“With white tails smoking free, Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show Their kinship to their sisters of the sea – And forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow. Still out of hardships bred, Spirits of power and beauty and delight Have ever on such frugal pastures fed And loved to course with tempests through the night.”
Roy Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a really great time doing it. I haven’t seen the whole movie together with all the special effects, but even without the special effects I was like, "This is rad!" I loved it. I just was with the characters more. I don’t know, somehow I connected with the story better.”
Milla Jovovich (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Nation, collect your compassion. Weep! For one of your shining lights is entombed in darkness. Weep! O ye officers and soldiers, whom he loved and led to military glory. Weep! O ye farmers and ye Poor, for your improver and benefactor has become a prey to worms. Come water his tomb with your tears.”
James Morris III (1752–1820) said by 1820 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memorial service for George Washington held in South Farms, Connecticut, 22 February 1880. As quoted in {{cite book
“We have lived and loved together Through many changing years; We have shared each other's gladness, And wept each other's tears.”
Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We have lived and loved together, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.”
Sarah Dessen (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
Sarah Dessen (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The happy-go-lucky barefoot kid who loved rugby, ice-cream-and-hot-chocolate sauce, staying at home for a braai and the flieks grew up into an international rugby player, idol of millions and South African cult figure...”
Jani Allan (1952–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never again I would know her slow kisses which are hardly felt. Never again the ringing mourning bells, songs of the dead that we loved.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither men nor women are exempt from killing loved ones. The difference is in what happens to them when they do. Twelve distinct female-only defenses allow a woman who commits a premeditated murder to have the charges dropped or significantly reduced. No man has successfully used any of these defenses in similar circumstances.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shifting our attitudes about the future of fathers requires shifting our attitudes about the way our fathers loved. Recognizing that the rigid roles of the past were not designed by men to serve only men is not unrelated to shifting our attitudes toward dad.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We teach boys to associate being abused with being loved.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was because you were out of sorts with the world, smarting with the wrongs you saw on every side, struggling after something better and higher and sympathizing with the poor and weak, that I loved you. We should never have been here, dear, if you had been a young gentleman satisfied with himself and the world, and likely to get on well in society.”
Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) first seen 1588 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: pp. 9–10 (ed. 1588)
“The land is holy where they fought And holy where they fell; For by their blood that land was bought, The land they loved so well.”
Isaac McLellan (1806–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New England's Dead, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“All loved Art in a seemly way With an earnest soul and a capital A.”
James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The V-a-s-e, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“We know, Lord, from John 3:16, that you so loved the world that you sent your only son to die for us. Your only son! But at the same time, we're all your children, so in your eyes, we're a bunch of girls. So help us as we struggle with the temptations of lesbianism. Amen.”
Bo Burnham (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.”
Ben Gibbard (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It seems that you live in someone else's dream In a hand-me-down wedding dress With the things that could have been are repressed But you said your vows and you closed the door On so many men who would have loved you more”
Ben Gibbard (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I’ve spent away from my family and loved ones, I’m starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There’s a darkness inside of me that I’m only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it’s starting to scare me.”
Ben Gibbard (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life. ...The first two years are important. ...of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source