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“She was afraid of men, with good reason, but she need not fear all of them. Cai loved her and somehow always would. But above all, she could trust him, because dishonesty wasn’t in him. Not always a good trait but a part of his nature. He kept faith without thinking about it at all. He couldn’t imagine not doing so”
Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Kevin Newman, Global National April 5th, 2006.
“I quit high school really young, and I always loved information. I'm a self-taught kind of chick. I don't have any tactics on studying, memorizing things. It's selective memory. If I feel like it's going to be a prominent factor in the future, then I will remember that.”
Michelle Rodriguez (born 1978) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CinemaBlendInterview: Michelle Rodriguez Talks Technology And Aliens In Battle: Los Angeles 11 March 2011
“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”
Colette (1873–1954) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Break of Day (1928)
“I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which he changed baseball — from a game of science to an extension of his powerful slugging — but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. No one ever loved life more. No one ever inspired more youngsters. I have reverence for his marvelous ability . I look forward to meeting him again some day.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I just can’t imagine how the families are feeling — the victims whose futures were stolen from them, from their families, from their loved ones who now have to struggle to go on and try to make sense of what’s happened.”
“How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I knew Richard Wright and I loved him. [...] I was not attacking him; I was trying to clarify something for myself.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.”
Kim Wilde (born 1960) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Face (March 1982)
“I loved writing about things when I was excited about them. It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin. It's painful writing about the bad things in an art form, particularly when young kids are going to be enthusiastic about those things, because they haven't seen anything better, or anything different.”
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Francis Davis, Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael (Da Capo, 2003, ).
“CM Punk: Looks like hell froze over. And when I mean "hell froze over," I mean this is me, standing in a WWE ring on Monday Night Raw with a live microphone in my hand. I don't mean that, apparently, a Blackhawks fan is universally loved inside the Predators' barn. [Crowd boos] Okay, I'm sorry, I had to. You guys understand that, I gotta be me. Right?”
CM Punk (born 1978) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: November 27, 2023
“The best of men have ever loved repose: They hate to mingle in the filthy fray; Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows, Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1700) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dog lay dead five days without a grave In the thick of summer, hid in a clump of pine And a jungle of grass and honey-suckle vine. I who had loved him while he kept alive Went only close enough to where he was To sniff the heavy honeysuckle-smell Twined with another odor heavier still And hear the flies' intolerable buzz.”
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've seen this before yeah I've been there too, This aint for me..not what I want, I've loved honestly and it always hurts, Can't feel this no more..it's gotta be true.”
Jaclyn Victor (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder. Yet in essence, that is what you have asked our loved ones to do, through an ill-contrived and totally naive campaign against the Second Amendment.”
Charlton Heston (1923–2008) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the National Press Club (September 14, 1997)
“Now when the spirit in us wakes and broods, Filled with home yearnings, drowsily it flings From its deep heart high dreams and mystic moods, Mixed with the memory of the loved earth things; Clothing the vast with a familiar face; Reaching its right hand forth to greet the starry race.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You would have understood me, had you waited; I could have loved you, dear! as well as he: Had we not been impatient, dear! and fated Always to disagree.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc’d true friends, and beat down baffling foes?”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why faintest thou! I wander’d till I died. Roam on! The light we sought is shining still. Dost thou ask proof? Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First of earthly singers, the sun-loved rill.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the sky.”
Robert Bridges (1844–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.”
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.”
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks in the Senate (August 12, 1919), Congressional Record, vol. 58, p. 3784.
“YOU FUCKING WHORE!!! You used me! You never loved me! I hope you slide under a gas truck and taste your fucking own blood! DIE! DIE! DIE! I want my records back! I want my fucking records back!”
Sam Kinison (1953–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.”
Francis Thompson (1859–1907) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daisy (1893), st. 10.
“Why?” he cried, a groan that filled the room. “Ask God when you come before Him in judgment,” Riario said. “I intend to. He’d best have a good answer, too, or I’ll make Him pay. One day I had a wife I loved, two daughters I couldn’t afford to dowry, and a face I didn’t mind seeing in a mirror. A couple of weeks later…”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and the best That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to Rest.”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XXI (1859)
“For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest.”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XXII (1889)
“Indeed the Idols I have loved so long Have done my credit in this World much wrong: Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup And sold my Reputation for a Song.”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XCIII (1889)
“On that dread day when wrath shall rend the sky, And darkness dim the bright stars’ galaxy, I’ll seize the Loved One by the skirt and cry, ‘Why hast thou doomed these guiltless ones to die?’”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain — No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) first seen 1564 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 625
“Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Body, Remember..." (1918)
“He was a quiet, gentle man, a man who loved peace (his country had suffered much from the wars of his predecessor), he behaved graciously toward everyone, humble and great alike. Never high-handed, he always sought advice in the kingdom’s affairs from serious, experienced people. Just why his nephew killed him was never precisely explained.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Willow" (1940)
“It's all the same to me. The Yenisei swirls, the North Star shines, as it will shine forever; and the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes is clouded over by the final horror. — The House on the Fontanka, 19 August 1939”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You’re pushing me away to decay like the day that I loved”
John Frusciante (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.”
Hugh Laurie (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.”
Rich Mullins (1955–1997) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wheaton, Illinois (April 11, 1997)
“I'm not scared of dying. I'm not scared of death. I'll keep a smile 'til my last breath. I've loved 'til I've lost. I've lived how I felt. One day I will find peace within myself.”
Ed Harcourt (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been furious with men who have expected me to be faithful, and I have been even more furious with those who did not, and once I screamed at a man whom I loved more than I'd intended to, "If I'm faithful to you, what bloody business is it of yours?”
Merle Shain (1935–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.”
Azar Nafisi (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sad loss of Colin Powell is another sad indication of the devastating toll that the coronavirus continues to take on our country. As we pray for the General Powell’s loved ones, we pray for the families of the nearly 725,000 Americans who have been taken from us by this vicious virus.”
Nancy Pelosi (born 1940) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pelosi Statement on Passing of Colin Powell" (October 18, 2021)
“To you who are scattered and broken, gather again and mend. Rebuild always, and again I say rebuild. Renew the face of the earth. It is a loved face, but now it is covered with the webs of tired spiders.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Judy's letter to the dispersed members of the Church of Omaha, in "And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire" (1972)
“I was thrilled. I loved the idea of opening everything up, of making old and secret documents available to anybody who wished to see them.”
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.”
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own.”
Andrew Wiles (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never once since I met you have I been bored; never once have I not wanted you. And never once, even for a moment, have I not loved you with all my heart.”
Valerie Hobson (1917–1998) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to her husband (1969)
“1814. Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My favourite album by her is The Dreaming, and I think she produced that one herself. That got a lot of criticism — but I loved it. It was overloaded with textures, and tones and all manner of things. It’s a record that I still can play to this day, and still hear new things.”
John Lydon (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source