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“I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dad was a good man. A kind man... I...loved him for what he did. He'd foster independence, showed us the value of education, and taught us to be curious about the world. Even more important, he'd helped the three of us become close as siblings, which I consider to be the greatest gift of all. I could have asked for nothing more in a father. And really, who could?”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He loved his wife but hated what life with her had become, cursing himself for even thinking this way.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...He was with the woman and daughters he loved, and who could ever need or want anything more than that?...It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all, it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had never dreamed of being a soldier; I had never fired a gun. I was not, nor ever had been, a fighter of any sort, but even so, I loved my country, and I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that the only protection that man has against himself is the trust and confidence of his friends. For example, my cynicism tells me that the man who makes a career of "people-hunting" or "people-hating" is a man who desperately fears being chased or not loved.”
Bill Downs (1914–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Outside it had begun to rain, a fine mist of a rain: fall leaves were plastered to the walkway, and puddles filled with bits of hay and coal lay in the street. A nice bit to remember for the writing. Water Street! He loved to look at it.”
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“However, as if all the suffering was not enough, I was also accused of the death and misery of my own loved ones, my Gujarati brothers and sisters. Can you imagine the inner turmoil and shock of being blamed for the very events that have shattered you!”
Narendra Modi (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's a sad day at 60 Minutes and for everybody here at CBS News. It's hard to imagine not having Andy around. He loved his life and he lived it on his own terms. We will miss him very much.”
Andy Rooney (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went skydiving, I went rocky mountain climbling, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Blue Manchu. And I loved deeper, and I spoke sweeter, and I gave forgiveness I'd been denying. And he said "Someday, I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.”
Tim McGraw (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You should've loved me baby When redemption's too blind Nature took my soul And sin left a scar so wide Time ravaged my body And now I live in the house Where the red light's always on”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Had I not been a classical singer, I would have loved to spend my entire life in a garage fine-tuning a Fiat or a Maruti.”
Bhimsen Joshi (1922–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a conjunction of images I have always loved in his Sonnets to Orpheus and this work is, in a way, a kind of eye which is reflecting images endlessly”
Anish Kapoor (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn't know what else to say. Moments like this brought home to me that no matter how well I thought I knew him, how much I loved him, we were on different sides of the fence that separated the infected from the uninfected. I could see a little way over to his side, but he lived there.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had loved so infrequently I felt a debt to those whom I had, for the reprieve from solitude.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I still wanted to tell our teacher about how the Indian people who’d worked on the ranch for us had explained to me that Shep, who’d always loved my brother more than life itself, had disappeared, because he’d run off to the highest hilltop to intercept my brother’s soul so he could lead my brother’s soul back to heaven.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the very first time, I understood what mi papá had been telling me all these years about his very own father, the great Don Juan, straight from Spain, and how he’d only liked and loved his blue-eyed children, the ones like himself, and had never even recognized his dark Indian-looking children like my dad.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dad loved using the word “ain’t.” He said it was the best damn slang word invented by the Americans.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the things about Adrianne I was always grateful for was that she always wanted to learn and experience more things in the world. She was very thoughtful and interested. She loved literature and reading.”
Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Molly Vetter, friend of Wadewitz — quoted in: Wetzel, Diane. (April 23, 2014). "NP grad, Wikipedia editor dies in Calif." NPTelegraph.com. North Platte, Nebraska. — and: Wetzel, Diane (April 23, 2014). "North Platte gra…
“It was like a quilt, a handmade, patterned quilt laid out for this man to take his final steps across and then lie down and die on: a quilted deathbed. It struck me that the world, or chance, or maybe death itself if you can speak of such a thing, must have loved this man in some way to prepare for him such a richly textured fabric to gather and wrap him up in.”
Tom McCarthy (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maybe nobody loved you when you were young Maybe, boy, when you cry nobody ever comes Will you try it once? Give up the machine gun”
Sara Bareilles (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They know how to remain silent; and though they are possessed of the most acute sensitiveness, they are, among the people I have met, those who express it least. A friend here can give his life with the greatest simplicity to save yours, though he never told you before that he loved you in such a profound and unselfish way.”
Mirra Alfassa (1878–1973) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Her views on the ancient art of Samurai, quoted in "Japan (1916-20)", also in The Modern Review, Volume 23 by Ramananda Chatterjee (1918), p. 69
“I have loved my stay here, enjoyed the wildlife at the Mara and the weather in Mombasa with my family. The hospitality has been first class and am definitely looking forward to coming back sometime in the future... I learned two Swahili words: jambo (Hello!) and asante (Thank you!).”
Aaron Ramsey (born 1990) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XinhuaNet (2 June 2013)
“Right from when I was an amateur, I loved kickboxing. I used to feel sad because the game had no sponsors.”
Moses Golola (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.”
Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Reuters, quoted on ITN. (26 January 2012)
“If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Corot's letter to his friend M. Francais in 1875, the year of his death
“I have seen women who thought they loved me look at me that way, and wolves which were hungry.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For, though sometimes worshipping gods, the Yunea did not permit itself to stray too far onto the abstract path of sheer faith. An ambience of security was all the aristocrats required, a guarantee that fate loved them.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time that gives so much and Time that takes so much away has put its mark on this place that is Old Hemlock almost without altering anything. In that gray-black blend of night-to-dawn I lie and think of all that Kay and I possess, aware that what is good is not what is new but what is loved and used, with a patina from hands and years.”
George Bird Evans (1906–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..we will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves. So that, then we go down, what is it that is despicable in ourselves? And there are some elements despicable in ourselves, which we don't want to look at, but which are part of our natures, that we are mortal.”
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Being, The Wisdom of Tenderness (transcript) Interview with Krista Tippett, December 24, 2009
“The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. The spirit of God, i. e., his invisible power, moved upon the waters and thereby he created.”
Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869–1942) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Harp of God (1921)
“I loved these compliments, which he lobbed at me like popcorn at a pigeon. I felt silly for craving his attention and powerful because he had noticed me. I bounced between those extremes, every other heartbeat, laying down hope one stratum at a time. The fact that he was all wrong––married, my boss, a flirt––gave me a perverse desire to make it right.”
Andrea Lewis (writer) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tierra Blanca" Bryant Literary Review, Vol. 11 (2010)
“I stood at the body of my dearly loved husband and was calm; all my feelings were of thankfulness to God that he was finally free, and as I knelt at his bed I had such a holy feeling. It was as if his magnificent spirit hovered above me, oh–if he had only taken me with him!”
Clara Schumann (1819–1896) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (29 July 1856)
“As a student of Franz von Stück he Kandinsky still continued for a while to paint quite naturalistically. He admitted to me that he had always loved color, even as a child, far more than subject matter. Form and color were his main interests. To me he often remarked that 'objects disturb me'. But he could paint portraits, too.”
Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe the art of the future including poetry will be simple, fresh and strongly coloured and will be understood and loved by the ignorant as well as the most cultivated. A popular art in the finest sense of the word.”
Max Michelson (1880–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.”
Michael Cunningham (born 1952) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 48, 1999 Fourth Estate paperback edition.
“The state is invisible...(it) needs to be symbolised before it can be loved.”
Michael Walzer (born 1935) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A 1967 paper
“Even the Revenue is better loved by the twenty first century Irish natives than were the English colonists who ruled from Dublin Castle in earlier centuries.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Sing for the Taxman' -Poetry Magazine-Poetry Foundation May 1 2009
“She never dwelt on my lapses, and I couldn’t entirely parse why this made me feel so awful. There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.”
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]e all thought you loved yourself, but that couldn't have been the issue. Or maybe they're just saying that now, because they miss you. Shoot, a fella tried to doss you? That's why you're laying on your back, looking at the roof of the church. Preacher's telling the truth and it hurts.”
DMX (1970–2021) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Party Up (Up In Here)" (1999), ...And Then There Was X
“It was my creative vision for it. I said, "I need to put a spin on this and wear it with a Jason mask or a Scream mask" or something. But I was a huge musical fan in general. This is kind of controversial to say, but I loved Avenue Q, even though it won the Tony for Best Musical over Wicked. But Wicked, of course, is my number one.”
Ariana Grande (born 1993) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ariana Grande Has Been Changed for Good Wmagazine (January 3, 2025).
“The choice is yours. As much as you might want to be loved and thanked, you can’t please everyone in your life all the time without causing one person to suffer – you.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one knows the pain of losing a loved one more than I do.”
Sheikh Hasina (born 1947) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
“He is what in traditional Sicily have long been called uomini rispettati — men of respect: men who are both majestic and humble, men who are loved by all and are very generous by nature, men whose hands are kissed as they walk from village to village, men who would personally go out of their way to redress a wrong.”
Gay Talese (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Titian, having adorned Venice, or rather all Italy and other parts of the world, with excellent paintings, well merits to be loved and respected by artists, and is in many things to be admired and imitated also, as one who has produced, and is producing, works of infinite merit; nay, such as must endure while the memory of illustrious men shall remain.”
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) said by 1574 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cult surprised me. I didn't even realise it had been successful. I loved it, I had fun working on it and it was one of the first things I'd ever written. And it wasn't just that it wasn't a hit - it was a huge failure. No one saw it. I don't know how on earth it caught on years later.”
Shane Black (born 1961) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: SHANE BLACK THINKS A MONSTER SQUAD SEQUEL “COULD BE FUN” (August 15 2016)
“I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.”
Kate Upton (born 1992) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Answering who she was modeling her career after, Kate Upton Wants to Be The Next Kathy Ireland. Can She Do It?, (February 14, 2012)
“Nobody liked him. Nobody loved him—and this bothered him. But everyone kowtowed to him, and that, it seems, was what he held most precious.”
Algis Budrys (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was a time when I drew a distinction between Benjamin Netanyahu's policies and this country I have loved so long. No more. Every single day we wake to yet another outrage.”
Bradley Burston wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source