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if a girl likes me a lotand starts getting real nervousand suddenly begins asking me funny questionsand looks sad if I give the wrong answersand she says things like,"Do you think it's going to rain?"and I say, "It beats me,"and she says, "Oh,"and looks a little sadat the clear blue California sky,I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time Instead of me.
Richard Brautigan— "It's Raining In Love"
I’m the type of person that likes to dream big, and I’ve often found that every great journey begins with a dream
joseph pisani— Radio Interview, Radio Osttirol, March 22, 2008, by Werner Gatterer
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.
joseph addison— No. 115. (The Guardian (1713))
If there's a stack [of novels to review], the unpromising stuff goes at the top and the promising stuff goes at the bottom. That way, I am eager to finish Overwrought Romantic Mary Sue Fantasy because I know that will let me read Niche Product That Only the Author, James and Some Guy at JPL likes.
james nicoll— Usenet article (2005)
Here's the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he don't know what it means.
Kurt (Donald) Cobain— 1991 'In Bloom'.
He likes the country, but in truth must own, Most likes it, when he studies it in town.
william cowper— 1782 Poems,'Retirement'.
Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.
henry adams— Ch. 7. (The Education of Henry Adams (1907))
It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
bruce fairchild barton— Ch. 4 : His Method
The layman's Constitutional view is that what he likes is Constitutional and that which he doesn't like is un-Constitutional. That about measures up the Constitutional acumen of the average person.
hugo black— News conference, Washington, D.C., reported in The New York Times (February 25, 1971), p. 38.
Susannah ... is on the right side of voluptuous and more laid-back. She loses things likes credit cards and keys.
susannah constantine— Fiona Neill, comparing Constantine with Trinny Woodall in "Retail therapists" in The Times (July 14 2007)
I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
salvador dalí— p. 79 (Diary of a Genius (1964))
When I think of the people who have been there, and the people I grew up admiring - the likes of Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard... it's just incredible that I'm in the same sort of club.
Barry McGuigan— After being inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. [[1]]
Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play...but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well...and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!
rafael nadal— Mats Wilander in a video about Nadal's comeback in the year 2010 in which he won three consecutive grand slams.
I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog's-ear place of these pages the warning, "Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.”
george saintsbury— Vol. 3, p. 644
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.
joseph schumpeter— The March into Socialism, pg.419
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Sophocles— Line 277; cf. "Don’t shoot the messenger."
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.
antisthenes— Xenophon, Symposium, iv. 35
The liberty of the citizen to do as he likes so long as he does not interfere with the liberty of others to do the same, which has been a shibboleth for some well known writers, is interfered with by school laws, by the Post Office, by every state or municipal institution which takes his money for purposes thought desirable, whether he likes it or not.
Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell— 198 U.S. at 79.
Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
Arthur Schopenhauer— Quoted by Jorge Luis Borges in his essay "A History of Eternity"
Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life’s chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.
kurt schwitters— Manifesto Proletkult, 1923Schwitters in discussion with the political Dadaists as Huelsenbeck
Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.
michael marshall smith— Prologue - Yakima
Women will no longer be able to give birth to the likes of Khalid bin Al-Waleed.
— Caliph Abu Bakr. (633 A.D)
Let the women say what they will about Abu Sulaiman (Khalid), for they do not lie, Over the likes of Abu Sulaiman weep those who weep.
— Caliph Umar, at Khalid's death.(642 A.D)
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, but most chastises those whom most he likes.
john pomfret— John Pomfret, To a Friend Under Affliction, line 89.
It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Chapter 3.
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.
antisthenes— Xenophon, Symposium, iv. 35
The Prophet said, "A Muslim has to listen to and obey (the order of his ruler) whether he likes it or not, as long as his orders involve not one in disobedience (to Allah), but if an act of disobedience (to Allah) is imposed one should not listen to it or obey it.
— Narrated 'Abdullah Volume 9, Book 89, Number 258
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
— Book I, 1.
You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.
j. m. barrie— Peter Pan (1911), also known as Peter and Wendy.
