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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)
No man likes to see his emotions the sport of a merry- go-round of skittishness.
thomas hardy— 1874 Far from the Madding Crowd, ch.4.
This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly: And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'TheTravellers' Rest', And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.
thomas hardy— 1922 Late Lyrics and Earlier,'Weathers'.
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
malcolm bradbury— Rates of Exchange, part 5, ch. 3.
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily likes of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
warren e. burger— Address to local and state police administrators up on their graduation from the FBI, reported in Frank J. Remington, Standards Relating to the Urban Police Function, American Bar Association: Advisory Committee on the Police Function, (1972), p. 2.
She's got a sister / God only knows how I missed her / And on the palm of her hand is a blisterShe's got a brother / We don't get on with one another / But I quite fancy her mother / And I think that she likes meShe's got one in the oven / But it's nothing to do with me"
Noel Gallagher— She's Electric
That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him. This state can only exist when what a man likes to do is to please himself. ¶ That state is a state of Freedom in which a man does what he likes to do in his working time and in his spare time that which is required of him. This state can only exist when what a man likes to do is to please God.
eric gill— Art Nonsense and Other Essays (1929), published by Cassell; quoted in Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit by Malcolm Yorke, published by Tauris Parke (ISBN 1-86064-584-4), p. 49
A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.
laurell k. hamilton— Vampire Requiem, to Anita; p. 311
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,But most chastises those whom most he likes.
john pomfret— Verses to his Friend under Affliction.
She's ma lady love, she is ma dove, ma baby love,She's no gal for sittin' down to dream,She's de only queen Laguna knows;I know she likes me, I know she likes meBekase she says so; She is de Lily of Laguna,she is ma Lily and ma Rose.
leslie stuart— Song Lily of Laguna
This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.
william makepeace thackeray— Vol. I, ch. 4. Compare: "I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table; "The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women", Bernard Shaw, Epistle Dedicatory to Man and Superman.
I take no pleasure in being Right in my dark predictions about the fate of our military intervention in the heart of the Muslim world. It is immensely depressing to me. Nobody likes to be betting against the Home team.
hunter s. thompson— "Fast and Furious" (14 October 2003)
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.
anthony daniels— Addicted to Addicts (Winter 1999)
... to challenge the objective nature of being. The notion of being is presented here as relative rather than irrefutable: it is merely a projection of our minds, a whim of our thinking. The mind has the right to establish being wherever it cares to and for as long as it likes. There is no intrinsic difference between being and fantasy.
jean dubuffet— letter to Arnold Glimcher, quoted by Valery Oisteanu, Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years. The Brooklyn Rail, March 2012.
I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi , Bin Laden, Hitler , and Stalin in a warm corner of hell.
john mccain— On the death of Kim Jong-il[47], 19 December 2011.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller— Willy (Death of a Salesman (1949))
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Tacitus— Book I, 1. (Histories (100-110))
It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 44 (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012))
I don't think he's a liar, just a fantasist. He says whatever he likes, and then he believes it.
norman tebbit— On Tony Blair
All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VI, line 350.
I have…read it with a good deal of amusement and enjoyment. The latter is due, I suppose, entirely to the subject – for everyone likes to imagine what a man could do if he were a dictator or Pope, or Caliph; the amusement is mainly at the author's expence. The style is one of the most preposterous I have ever read, and I doubt if I ever saw so much pedantry combined with so much ignorance.
— C. S. Lewis, letter to Arthur Greeves dated October 1, 1934, cited from W. H. Lewis (ed.) The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004) vol. 2, p. 143
Funny scene, likesay, how aw the psychos seem tae ken each other, ken what ah means, likes?
— Spud, "Kicking Again: Na Na and Other Nazis" (Chapter 3, Story 2)
"He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain."
alice walker— Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy
Yazid is a transgressor, a drunkard, killer of innocent people and an open sinner, we will never give our allegiances to the likes of him.
— Ibn A'tham al-Kufi, Al-Futuh, vol.5, p.18-19
Even if you are pro-choice, no one likes to see a dead fetus.
— Vilma Valdez, Education Director Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, The Miami Herald (October 24, 1992).
God has some areas where he likes to be supplicated in, and the prayer of the supplicator is accepted (in those areas); the sanctuary of Husayn (a.s.) is one of these.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.510
