„One day spent with someone you love can change everything.“

„Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Survivor

Zdroj: Survivor

„Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.“

—  Andrew Lloyd Webber British composer 1948

„Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.“

—  Tennessee Williams American playwright 1911 - 1983

Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

„I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.“

—  Jonathan Safran Foer, kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

„It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.“

—  Paulo Coelho, kniha Eleven Minutes

Zdroj: Eleven Minutes

„Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.“

—  Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947

Charging Barack Obama with plagiarism at Texas presidential debate, February 21, 2008 http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1715473,00.html; see relevant quote above, two days earlier
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

„You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.“

—  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American writer 1940

„Old man take a look at my life
I'm a lot like you.
I need someone to love me
The whole day through.
Ah, one look in my eyes
And you can tell that's true.“

—  Neil Young, Old Man

Old Man
Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)

„You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.“

—  Philip Roth, kniha Portnoy's Complaint

Zdroj: Portnoy's Complaint

„You can love someone you mistrust.“

—  Emily Giffin American writer 1972

Baby Proof

„Deanna's voice softened. "Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him."“

—  Nicholas Sparks, kniha Message in a Bottle

"I know that--"
"But you don't," Deanna said, gently cutting her off. "Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded."
Deanna and Theresa Osbourne, Chapter 10, p. 196
Zdroj: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)

„No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.“

—  Rick Riordan, kniha The Blood of Olympus

Varianta: No one can hate you more than someone who used to love you.
Zdroj: The Blood of Olympus

„Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.“

—  Rita Mae Brown Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944

„Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing.“

—  Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)
Kontext: Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except perhaps for the feeling of doubt or depression that what was so beautiful could change so quickly.

„There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.“

—  Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961

Zdroj: Solipsist (1998)
Kontext: They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

„A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

„If one day someone asks about me
Tell them I lived to love you.
Before you, I only existed
Tired and with nothing to give.“

—  Luísa Sobral Portuguese singer and songwriter 1987

Se um dia alguém perguntar por mim
Diz que vivi para te amar.
Antes de ti, só existi
Cansado e sem nada para dar.
"Amar pelos dois" (2017) · Grand Finale performance with her brother after his win of the Eurovision contest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXodL-oQGws

„It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!“

—  Edwin H. Land American scientist and inventor 1909 - 1991

Speaking at Columbia University, as quoted in The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, Vol. 37, No. 3 (1992), p. 537
Kontext: We have not found anti-intellectualism a problem at the Polaroid Corporation, except in the very initial state of penetration. It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

„When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?“

—  Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926

Varianta: If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence
Zdroj: No Death, No Fear