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“I refuse to accept the notion that we couldn’t have prevented some of those murders, and suicides, and kept more families whole. I know we won’t all agree on this issue. But it’s time to be honest — fewer gun safety laws don’t mean more freedom, they mean more fallen officers. They mean more grieving families, and more Americans terrified that they or their loved ones could be next.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Obama Police Chiefs (10-27-2015)
“As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 25 May 2022 tweet
“But liberty, to be loved on the surface is worthless”
Immortal Technique (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would be more decorous not to live. To live is not decorous, Says he who after many years Returned to the city of his youth. There was no one left Of those who once walked these streets And now they had nothing, except his eyes. Stumbling, he walked and looked, instead of them, On the light they had loved, on the lilacs again in bloom.”
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: City of My Youth" (1984)
“I was very, very surprised. I never thought I would be that loved or respected.”
Brian Wilson (1942–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You shut your mouth, How can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am human and I need to be loved Just like everybody else does”
“Last night I dreamt That somebody loved me No hope, no harm Just another false alarm Last night I felt Real arms around me No hope, no harm Just another false alarm So, tell me how long Before the last one? And tell me how long Before the right one? The story is old - I know But it goes on The story is old - I know But it goes on Oh, goes on And on Oh, goes on And on”
Morrissey (born 1959) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the 1987 song , co-written with Johnny Marr.
“The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one — no matter where he lives or what he does — can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.”
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record but I only heard about it when I was in Germany. I don’t know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I’m a bit old. I’m just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck.”
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Blame it on Rio" by Robin Smith, in Record Mirror (26 January 1985).
“, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”
G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I loved you, well that's my fault”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And we think the world would benefit from a much more feminine approach to the problems we are facing in the world today. Yes. The world needs to be nurtured and loved and rocked and caressed -- it needs some softness to balance out. And, I think, little by little we'll be able to give it that -- besides strength, because, you know, we have the babies for a reason. Yes, indeed.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: address to LULAC (July 1, 2005)
“I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories.”
Chiaki Kuriyama (born 1984) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Complex Magazine (February/March 2004) On her role as Go Go Yubari in Kill Bill: Vol. 1
“He was a fool — a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his brain, and all the blood poured out, and he could not see the Mexican sun. Your people raised the ax, and the last blood of revolutionary mankind, his poor blood, ran into the carpet.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Proverbs about truth are well-loved in Russian. They give steady and sometimes striking expression to the not inconsiderable harsh national experience: ONE WORD OF TRUTH SHALL OUTWEIGH THE WHOLE WORLD. And it is here, on an imaginary fantasy, a breach of the principle of the conservation of mass and energy, that I base both my own activity and my appeal to the writers of the whole world.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can be. I do not normally try to be. In fact, there have been some reviews—which I’ve loved—that said I didn't try to sell my show on sex, that I sang my show. On the other hand, I know I'm cute. I can dance. I don't have a bad figure. I know exactly what I am. I'm certainly no great beauty. I know exactly how far I can go.”
Stevie Nicks (born 1948) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (when asked "Do you think you're sexy?") "20 Questions", Playboy, Vol. 29, No. 7 (July 1982)
“Do you really believe in the resurrection of the body?" she asked "Of course I do!" replied Hazard stiffly. "To me it seems a shocking idea. I despise and loathe myself, and yet you thrust self at me from every corner of the church as though I loved and admired it. All religion does nothing but pursue me with self even into the next world.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I fight for the family of Matthew Stanley of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Matthew died serving our country in Iraq. I wear his bracelet and think of him every day. I intend to honor their sacrifice by making sure the country their son loved so well and never returned to remains safe from its enemies.”
John McCain (1936–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”
Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 23.
“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for me When I came.”
T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dedicatory poem, to "S. A.", as written in the 1922 "Oxford text"; variant : "When we came" for "When I came" in the 1926 edition, and others.
“The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) first seen 1836 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Last Leaf", Poems (1836)
Also quoted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes
“When it's your name on the goddamn show... the pressure is-- it's intense! And then, the show got successful, and everybody expected each week to be even better than the last, and it was a lot of pressure. And I loved every second of it, but it was a lot of pressure and a lot of work, and it was all great, but: never could have accomplished it without [Transcendental Meditation].”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.”
Margaret Courtney (1822–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of violence, and a black man, I have been deeply troubled by the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement and angered by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers. I grieve with the families who have lost loved ones, as I know their pain all too well.”
Michael Jordan (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By incestuous symbiosis is meant the tendency to stay tied to the mother and to her equivalents — blood, family, tribe — to fly from the unbearable weight of responsibility, of freedom, of awareness, and to be protected and loved in a state of certainty dependence that the individual pays for with the ceasing of his own human development.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved you, Atthis, once, long, long ago... You seemed to me a small, ungainly child.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 49 Voigt (tr. C. M. Bowra, 1938)
“It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.”
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After being shot at by Roderick Maclean on 2 March 1882, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 450.
“Count not the cost of honour to the dead! The tribute that a mighty nation pays To those who loved her well in former days Means more than gratitude for glories fled; For every noble man that she hath bred, Lives in the bronze and marble that we raise, Immortalised by art's immortal praise, To lead our sons as he our fathers led.”
Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: National Monuments, st. 1 (February 1905).
“It was impossible to conceive of two creatures so different who got along so well and loved each other so much.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That wonderful book [The Pilgrim's Progress], while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'John Bunyan', The Edinburgh Review (December 1830); in Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Vol. I (1843), p. 411
“He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Thomas B. Macaulay
“No one but me ever knew all his goodness, no one but himself ever knew how dearly I loved your father. We were more precious each to each than anything on earth; except His service, who gave us to one another.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at London Guildhall (19 October 1959)
“But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.”
Jack London (1876–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.”
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (1998), as quoted by Business Insider
“I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting -- a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.”
Jim Gaffigan (born 1966) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his character in My Boys — interview in Bob Kostanczuk (December 15, 2006) "From 'Pale Force' to 'My Boys' Region native Jim Gaffigan keeps comedy career chuggin' with new sitcom", Post-Tribune, p. D1.
“There are people who have made me see shapes — and others I thought of a great deal, even people I have loved, who make me see nothing. I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.”
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a mitherable childhood. Nobody loved me. I think I have a right to try again, looking pwettier, don't you?”
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”
Cory Doctorow (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can.”
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) said by 1672 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you ever loved someone so much you'd give an arm for? Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for? When they know they're your heart and you know you are their armor And you will destroy anyone who would try to harm her”
Eminem (born 1972) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When I'm Gone" (2005)
“Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague Because I need some of that vagueness now It's all come back too clearly Yes I loved you dearly And if you're offering me diamonds and rust I've already paid”
“I thought to myself, "This is Harvard", You expect Harvard to be this stuffy, arrogant place. But then you get here and see how bright everyone is — what could be better? I loved it.”
Jesse Ventura (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing … You come to a point where you have sung, more or less … your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. You know, up until that point, I hadn't had a life. I'd been searching, been on the road.”
Cat Stevens (born 1948) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On leaving the music business in 1979,in an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning (12 August 2007)