Lovers Quotes - Page 32

• ...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

  H. Russell Wakefield

  Humility, Chess, Cold

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• All lovers are unique. Bad sex can be very thrilling for the heart.

  Duncan Fallowell

  Sex, Heart, Unique

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• Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

  Germaine Greer

  Divorce, Interesting, Twins

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider man's best friend is his dog.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Best Friend, Dog

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• Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Mean, Love Is

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• That’s me, man – I’m a lover not a fighter.

  Wayne Wonder

  Men, Fighter

  "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org.

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• Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

  Walter Lippmann

  Love, Love Each Other, Envied

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.308, Transaction Publishers

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• Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

  John Updike

  Love, Fashion, Mirrors

  John Updike (2012). “Collected Poems, 1953-1993”, p.85, Knopf

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• The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Party, Rocks

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• There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

  Cyril Connolly

  Women, Wife, Fury

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• The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Four, Aries, Pleasure

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• Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but about the things they’ve not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they’d been but know they failed to be.

  Thom Hartmann

  Regret, People, Goal

  Thom Hartmann (2011). “The Thom Hartmann Reader”, p.149, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  Wendell Willkie

  Change, Views, Europe

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• The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.

  John Olsen

  Two, People, Generosity

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• I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Mistake, School, Romance

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• A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! “The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Love You, Simple

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• If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

  Marion Nestle

  Reading, Book, Animal

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• There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.

  Robert Y. Hayne

  Country, Men, Order

  Debate in the Senate on Mr. Foot's Resolution, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1830.

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• Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

  Theocritus

  Eye, Alaska, Faults

  Theocritus (1767). “The Idylliums of Theocritus”, p.61

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• Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent.  Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship.  Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience.  Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Book, Passion

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• All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

  Katharine Kerr

  Tragedy, Affair, Moments

  "Snare". Book by Katharine Kerr, 2003.

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• The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Running, Rivers, Awkward

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover’s hand in public

  Josh Lanyon

  Gay, Men, Hands

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• Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

  Nuala O'Faolain

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• It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.

  Royal Cortissoz

  Crush, Dirty, Blow

  Royal Cortissoz (1916). “Art and common sense”

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