Sri Chinmoy
Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
"You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love."
Liking Someone quotes
Liking Someone
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."
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"Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!"
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"There are very few songs about just liking someone as a friend."
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"Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking."
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"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."
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"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."
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