Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
Laura Lippman
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How can you love anyone without loving yourself first?
TAPAN GHOSH Loving life's imperfections inspires perfect love
PAUL DAVID TWELKER Be selfish; love yourself before loving anyone else.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what rea...
LAURA LIPPMAN Unconditional love takes a strong and deliberate evolution. Unconditional love is way beyond emotion...
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my m...
TA-NEHISI COATES The finest clothes anyone can wear are a kind heart and a loving soul.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soake...
ANITA SHREVE When love is suppressed hate takes its place
HAVELOCK ELLIS When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
HAVELOCK ELLIS We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
KEVIN PLANK I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS I do not know how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS It takes a really long time to realize this, but if you’re lucky you eventually see that you’ve ...
C. JOYBELL C. She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit...
LAURA LIPPMAN John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike...
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LAURA LIPPMAN She was as close to perfect as anyone can be.
ADEWALE ADEYOOYE ...unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penn...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Anyone can be a #star but it takes #hardwork to be a #superstar.
LALIT BHOJWANI If you don't love yourself, you won't be happy with yourself. If you can't love yourself, you can't ...
KEMI SOGUNLE Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make ...
ASHLEY YOUNG We can only learn to love by loving.
IRIS MURDOCH Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at...
LEONHARD EULER Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO This is a tremendous shock. Elrod has been such a big figure in Baltimore for so long. He was as muc...
CAL RIPKEN Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to
re-rat.
SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL (3) Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat
WINSTON CHURCHILL There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
WALTER LIPPMANN I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.
ANSEL ELGORT Anyone can change something, but it takes everyone to change everything.
EBENEZER O. AKINRINADE True love is loving yourself thoroughly so that you can love another unconditionally.
ELIZE AMORNETTE You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON True love is not loving a person despite their weaknesses, but rather loving them because you can su...
JIM GENOVESE She was just in love with the Lord. She would never say anything bad about anyone; she was loving to...
JENNIFER CZAJKA What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love can only be found through the act of loving.
PAULO COELHO Some people might look at Baltimore, from afar, and see nothing but hopelessness. I see, in Baltimor...
MARTIN O'MALLEY Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
FREDRICH HALM Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
ROSE FRANKEN Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Love can never let you down because love is perfect.
NICOLE J. FORTUNE Like a perfect tennis serve, a perfect golf swing or a perfect omelet, a perfect resume takes more e...
TOM JACKSON Holy Child of God, You are a Beautiful Creation of a Loving God. Let not the dreams of the world per...
DAVID HOFFMEISTER Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Mo...
ANACREON You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving
AMY CARMICHAEL Unconditional love also includes loving your 'enemy'. You can do it.
@ICONIC88 Practice loving yourself, so you can learn how to love others.
JIM GENOVESE Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, ris...
MELISSA HILL Laura has been right on top of the Redwood program for some time. While Tom Lyons was exceptional, I...
BILL TAYLOR Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that w...
MERLE SHAN Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that w...
MERLE SHAIN Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other an...
BELL HOOKS Anyone can head hunt, but it takes a true artist to attack the body with great success...
JOHNNY LEE PIRO There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, fo...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --ex...
STEPHANE MALLARME There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /excep...
STéPHANE MALLARMé People are never perfect, but love can be.
TOM ROBBINS Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in ma...
HEATH LEDGER Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers...
ANACREON Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
STEPHEN D'MELLO Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your hear
ASHISH KUMAR The inner child never wants to hurt anyone; your inner child always comes from a place of love.
KIM HA CAMPBELL To a woman in love, loving too much is not loving enough
JANICE MARKOWITZ No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can co...
VACLAV HAVEL And isn't it funny how if one person speaks for real, then the other person can too? We just did tha...
LAURA PRITCHETT You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resi...
SHERYL SANDBERG Some people won't love you no matter what you do. Some people won't STOP loving you no matter what y...
ELEANOR BROWNN Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.
ASHTON KUTCHER The goal was a pass from Laura Grace. I spun outside to make a run, and she played a perfect ball ri...
MELISSA GAREY Anyone can hate. It costs to love.
JOHN WILLIAMSON An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing...
MARK TWAIN I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
JOHN GREEN There are different kinds of love you experience in life. Loving someone differently doesn't mean lo...
NELY CAB You have to love yourself, before you can love anyone else.
EMILY O'SHEA But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be pe...
YOUNG THUG Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
A. J. P. TAYLOR I come from a place of loving people - all human people.
AYMAN ODEH Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transce...
ANDRE DUBUS she was the perfect version of what she was. In life, that's all anyone can aspire to be
TOBIAS WADE Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for ...
CHRIS MATAKAS I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of...
PHILIPP MEYER The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us c...
RON HALL A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but n...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA only true loving hearts can easily identify some little lies in your smileand some moretruths in you...
SHIVAKKUMAR I will cross the border; set across the ocean. I will break down walls; reject rules just to be with...
S. O'SDAE The world is not a perfect place and never will be,all we can do is hope for humanity
K.L Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes th...
JOHN FRENCH It takes a lot of toughness and resilience to come through that. As a captain, it's doubly hard to s...
GAVIN HAMILTON Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only th...
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LAURA PREPON I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon...
LAURA PREPON I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, ...
LAURA PREPON In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is ...
LAURA PREPON When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything,...
LAURA PREPON I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
LAURA PREPON On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's ...
LAURA PREPON I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you...
LAURA PREPON There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
LAURA PREPON The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't bel...
LAURA PREPON Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
LAURA PREPON I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
LAURA PREPON For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there...
LAURA PREPON I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
LAURA PREPON But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
LAURA PREPON I'm the type of person that will do triple sessions in one day. I'll do Pilates, I'll do...
LAURA PREPON I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I...
LAURA PREPON They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome p...
LAURA PREPON My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
LAURA PREPON I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
LAURA PREPON I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
LAURA PREPON For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row...
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