"Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!"
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"I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away."
"They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool."
"Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant."
"I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second."
"When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us."
"I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value."
"Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear."
"It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer"."
"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate."
"But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”"
"Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite."
"You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory"
"Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices."
"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."
"You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would."
"I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble."
"I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases."
"One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living."
"In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate."