„I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.“

— Jodi Picoult

Last update June 3, 2021.

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— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

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To ever look my way again.“

— Sara Teasdale American writer and poet 1884 - 1933

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„How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.“

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Source: Twelfth Night

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„Time is that which is measured by a clock. This is a sound way of looking at things. A quantity like time, or any other physical measurement, does not exist in a completely abstract way. We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it. It is the definition by the method of measuring a quantity that is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense about this kind of thing.“

— Hermann Bondi British mathematician and cosmologist 1919 - 2005

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„In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.“

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„I stared at him. Did he really say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away.
Because I remembered. I remembered everything.“

— Jenny Han American writer 1980

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

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„He’s doing this because he cares for me? Well if almost killing me is his way of expressing care, then I absolutely fear the instance when he ever decides to express love.“

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„He was waiting for me to say something. He was staring at me. This, I think, is the first time I dared myself to stare back at him. Usually, I'd cast a glance and then look away—look away because I didn't want to swim in the lovely, clear pool of his eyes unless I'd been invited to—and I never waited long enough to know whether I was even wanted there; look away because I was too scared to stare anyone back; look away because I didn't want to give anything away; look away because I couldn't acknowledge how much he mattered. Look away because that steely gaze of his always reminded me of how tall he stood and how far below him ranked.“

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„He despises me, because he knows I love him.“

— Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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„I'm looking forward, though, one day, if I'm not too old, to do a free concert in a free Cuba. That to me would be fantastic. We're looking forward to it. Well, hopefully, I mean he's [Castro] gotta go [die] sometime. He's gotta go sometime -- let's hope it's sooner [rather] than later.“

— Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

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— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

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„The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.“

— Philip K. Dick American author 1928 - 1982

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„I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.“

— Pietro Aretino Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer 1492 - 1556

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Source: Last Sacrifice

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„I hoped I never saw him again. If I ever had to look at him again, if he looked at me the way he did that day, it would break me.“

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„By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.“

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Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (1070).
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„The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Glass

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„I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.“

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