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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU Si je perdais ma bibliothèque, j'aurais toujours le métro et l'autobus. Un billet le matin, un bil...
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU I don't know what to think. I hated him, but this will turn him into a martyr.
BOGDAN CURCIC Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO ...and yes even loved him even though logic and reason told me I had no business feeling that way ab...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.
JULIE DE LESPINASSE It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.
JAVAN I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to pract...
RICKY WILLIAMS To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to r...
GERRY COONEY You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, bec...
AVA DELLAIRA Marcel was an integral part of the success the Riders have seen over the past few years. This is a g...
DANNY BARRETT Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that...
CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
POPE GREGORY VII Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
J. KENNER I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of you...
BETTE DAVIS Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
VIET THANH NGUYEN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO There are many ways to get to know someone, and my favorite is seeing them naked in Happy Baby pose....
CHELSEA HANDLER When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure so...
C.S. LEWIS No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.
CRAIG GROESCHEL As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
BIBLE Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A...
MELINA MARCHETTA If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELL I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.
PAUL INCE To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
MINNA ANTRIM Everyone had a place. Everyone fit. Everyone belonged. Everyone but Anna Mae.
KATHLEEN FULLER Do you not understand?” he whispered. “I have never belonged to anyone. Not since I was a child....
KRISTEN CALLIHAN He will know how much his dad loved him. He loved him so much, and that's what I want him to always ...
MAE RHYNES To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely li...
DORIS LILLY The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourse...
BRYANT MCGILL Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY But remember that in order to symbolize everything to everyone, you will be both loved and hated.
BONNIE HUIE I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
MARKUS ZUSAK There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me.
NINA LACOUR To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY I came to Hermiston in 1982 and I loved the area, but I hated this 395 corridor.
FRED ZIARI I love to love and to be loved, yet hate to hate and to be hated.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Think before acting, you get remembered by people either by being hated or being loved and being hat...
SAEED AWAD It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone...
GARY ZUKAV It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone...
WIN BORDEN It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone...
ROBERT HEINLEIN “It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love some...
ASHISH KUMAR To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by someone you love...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Dante, who loved well because he hated, / Hated wickedness that hinders loving.
ROBERT BROWNING Had I never loved, I never would have been unhappy; but I turn to Him who can save, and if His wisdo...
MARK TWAIN Well, you can't have heartbreak without love," Dan pointed out. "If your heart was really broken, th...
LEILA SALES Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific th...
SAVO HELETA The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which does...
BEATRICE WOOD ...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her...
JODI PICOULT I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from af...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
MARY TYLER MOORE sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers
MARY TYLER MOORE Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do
something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs i...
JIM ROHN The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. T...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?
JODI PICOULT I roll into pure thought and sit and sulk at the wall. Tears don't, usually, come pouring from my ey...
KAYLA RAE Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
LEONARDO DA VINCI She hated him for all her might. She hated him for leaving her all those years ago, she hated him fo...
DIYAR HARRAZ Admiral Fry, or someone working with him, said, 'You know, if this thing suddenly veers off course a...
KEN BACON I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w...
C. JOYBELL C. How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. A person who hasn't hated never loved.
EPHDAN It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE The Utopia the bible seems to want would have people hate evil when it is time to hate and suggests ...
JAMES DYE I don't know where Jon is! It wasn't my turn to watch him!
RICHIE SAMBORA When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you re...
ANN BRASHARES To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love...
JOHN N. MITCHELL To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love...
SAM KEEN It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRé GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
MARY TYLER MOORE
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MARCEL PROUST My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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MARCEL PROUST A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm...
MARCEL DUCHAMP People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake t...
MARCEL PROUST The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were ...
MARCEL CARNE Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to suc...
MARCEL DUCHAMP If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
MARCEL CARNE Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...
MARCEL MARCEAU In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground...
MARCEL PROUST What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
MARCEL MARCEAU All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in intr...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUST Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried ...
MARCEL PAGNOL