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“Yeah, I love fashion. Love it, love it, love it. I love clothes. I’m a vegan, so I’m really interested now in sustainability and fashion being sustainable. I’m very kind of new to the veganism kind of fashion side, I’ve been a vegan for god… 15 years now or so. I was a vegan before it was cool to be vegan. Old school, you know?”
Golda Rosheuvel (born 1970) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Conversation With Golda Rosheuvel" by Claudia Mahoney, The Outnet (Spring 2021).
“The more we love the divine—in whatever shape or form it is—the more we love one another and want to serve one another. To show love we serve the people we love. This is why every single religion speaks about the imperative to do good. I do not see a dividing line between service and love.”
Azza Karam (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And also I love the idea of codes. I love secrets, trading secrets. I love the act of encoding, I love the space where you don’t know what the code means, and I love the act of decoding and the moment of understanding.”
Eric Millikin (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is eternal. People have been hurt and disappointed and because of that, have stopped believing in the existence of love. You find love from God. Learn to love yourself. Only then can you love someone else.”
Xoli Zondi (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chicago is my favorite American city. … I like all the museums. I love the Art Institute. I love all the theatre and the blues clubs and bars, and the people are so great. I think Chicago is the perfect blend of a big city with a Midwestern finish on it. Everybody is really nice but it is a sophisticated city. I love the park. I love the zoo. I love the lake. The whole thing.”
Megan Mullally (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love it, I love it; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”
Eliza Cook (1812–1889) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Arm-Chair", st. 1. Melaia, and Other Poems (London: Charles Tilt, 1840) p. 55
“The reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of our love for Him is to love Him without measure.”
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) said by 1153 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Loving God, Ch. 6, as translated in Leon Cristiani, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, trans. M. Angeline Bouchard (Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1983), p. 102
“Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. For they could not love you, But still your love was true And when no hope was left in sight, on that starry starry night You took your life as lovers often do, But I could have told you, Vincent, This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”
Don McLean (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It made her pure, and those we love must be pure, otherwise we can't love them. But loving a person is also making her pure. (p. 189)”
Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wonder: why does God demand our love? possible answer: so that we might love ourselves and in loving ourselves, forgive ourselves. And how we need forgiveness. Because life itself already comes muddled with error. (p10)”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A loving human being is not produced by exhortations, rules, and threats. Love only takes root in children when it comes to them--initially and most importantly from nurturing parents. Ontogenetically speaking, love is an answering phenomenon. It is literally a response.”
Huston Smith (1919–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"… ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.”
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed, No austere faith based on ignoble fear Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace. Unless the humblest creatures on the earth Are bettered by thy loving sympathy Think not to find a Paradise beyond.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Way (1913).
“Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love...”
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas Edison ""No Immortality of the Soul" says Thomas A. Edison. In Fact, He Doesn't Believe There Is a Soul — Human Beings Only an Aggregate of Cells and the Brain Only a Wonderful Machine, Says Wizard of Electricity…
“Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room: and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will no more be seen.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aspiration, practiced as a familiar, respectful and loving conversation with God, is such an excellent method, that, by means of it, one soon arrives at the summit of all perfection, and falls in love with Love.”
John of St. Samson (1572–1636) said by 1636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aspiration practiced as a familiar, loving respectful conversation with God, is such an excellent method, that, by means of it, one soon arrives at the summit of all perfection and falls in love with love. p. 74”
John of St. Samson (1572–1636) said by 1636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We say that homosexuality is a perfectly natural state, a fact, a way of life, and that we enjoy our sexuality, without feelings of inferiority or guilt. We seek and find love, and approach love, as a feeling of loving mutuality.”
Harry Hay (1912–2002) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of Purpose: Gay Liberation Front (Dec. 1969)
“The white kids are being conditioned to feel superior—so you can’t attack the whites, you have to attack the system. But we have to attack with loving ourselves first. If we don’t love more, we ain’t revolutionizing nothin’. People who love themselves won’t tolerate deception; they won’t tolerate oppression…”
Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On growing up in an orphanage and the White kids being taken near heaters while the Latino kids were left in the cold in “An Interview with Poet, Teacher, and Activist Jimmy Santiago Baca” in the Kenyon Review (2017 Aug…
“I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you — it's about you needing to love people, you needing to have people that you can ert[sic — (perhaps "exert")] that energy toward. You have to have those people.”
Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are a soft target. We are peace-loving people. We will not go and damage anything. We will not go and protest. We take candle-light processions whenever something goes wrong. And remember, we are patriotic people. We love our country. We love our motherland. And we will be anything you ask of us. Please trust us.”
Peter Machado (born 1954) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why are you targeting only Christians? We are patriotic people: Bengaluru archbishop Peter Machado (19 October 2021)
“Love, when you are loving someone, love him for the sake of God or his messenger”
Ali Nuhu (born 1974) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sangaya; Soyayya 2001. (Ali Nuhu and Safiya Muhammad)
“Now honest down-to-earth tough love is the only virtue that I know of that's guaranteed never to fail. We often fail loving, but love never fails.”
Robert H. Meneilly (1925–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don’t say you love God when you are unkind, when you are cruel, when you look down on people—minamata mo ang mga tao (-you look down on people). You need to love your neighbor, which is the other side of the coin of loving God. All of that is part of my being.”
Loida Nicolas Lewis (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your strong and loving spirit has drawn its light and its flames from Him. Therefore, I am truly, greatly, incredibly fortunate: because in order to love you and think of you, I must love the Truth and think of the Truth. (p. 4)”
Giuseppe Capograssi (1889–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humility and love, whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, constitute the essence of true religion. The humble is formed to adore; the loving, to associate with eternal love.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved a lass, a fair one, As fair as e'er was seen; She was indeed a rare one, Another Sheba queen: But, fool as then I was, I thought she loved me too: But now, alas! she's left me, Falero, lero, loo!”
George Wither (1588–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Loved a Lass; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.
“It was not a ban from the government. It was a cancellation by people who felt I should not be with Stokely because he was a rebel to them. I didn't care about that. He was somebody I loved, who loved me, and it was my life.”
Miriam Makeba (1932–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Denselow, Robin (16 May 2008)
“Sophocles, the poet loved and feared, Whose mighty voice once called out of her lair The Dorian muse severe, with braided hair, Who loved the thyrsus and wild dances weird.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
John Green (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They loved that I put a bone through my nose. They loved that I had my penis pushed back inside me.”
Bruce Parry (born 1969) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Do you really want to be in our tribe?" in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You never knew what I loved in you,I don't know what you loved in me.Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be.”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be unknown but loved by just one is better than being known by many but loved by none.”
Lupe Fiasco (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because I loved myself, I was loved.”
Erica Jong (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As you read their names, imagine who they loved, who loved them, and those those left behind cope now without them. They're never coming home. Never.”
Margaret Cho (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kochu Maria watched with her cake-crumbs. The Fond Smiles watched Fondly. Little Girls Playing. Sweet. One beach-coloured. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.”
Arundhati Roy (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.”
Montesquieu (1689–1755) said by 1755 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1875)
“If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It simply makes sense that I should miss my parents more than they miss me, especially when you consider that they only loved me for thirteen years while I loved them my entire life.”
Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“None ever loved but at first sight they loved.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) first seen 1598 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare: Marlowe, Hero and Leander (1598): "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
“That I would be loved even when I numb myself That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed That I would be loved even when I was fuming That I would be good even if I was clingy.That I would be good even if I lost sanity That I would be good whether with or without you.”
Alanis Morissette (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source