“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
Source: Black Blood
“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
"Love and Its Loveless Counterfeits"
Strictly Personal (1953)
Context: The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.
“you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Source: The Last Song
“They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.”
Imelda Marcos (1929) Former First Lady of the Philippines
Quoted in " The day I met Imelda Marcos http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1000140.stm at BBC News (31 October 2000). <br class="br">Context: When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.
“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat… between the law of love and the law of hate.”
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Letter (1881), as quoted in The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions : Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context (1993) by Irving Louis Horowit, p. 11
“I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”
Michael Morpurgo book War Horse
Source: War Horse
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath