Top 642 Liking Quotes & Sayings

When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.

I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.

If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

What is important for me is that people are liking my movies, I am liking my work, for which I am very happy.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

I hate myself for liking you.

I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.

I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

Pop art is about liking things.

I remember liking the MTV awards when I was a kid.

It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.

Liking beauty doesn't mean you're superficial.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

I don't really worry about a crowd liking me.

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.

Liking who you are and liking what you do can make you an incredibly successful person.

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

I went from following people to being on my own. Once I was on my own, I watched people start liking me, and I watched people stop liking me. Everything was supposed happen. It was all supposed to reveal itself.

I think you know what's new about this the Democrat Party not liking the Russians. That's a first. The Democrat Party not liking the idea the Soviet Union back together.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

Each man is led by his own liking.

I don't mind people liking or not liking me. If you make something and then in the back of your mind you think it could have been a bit better, that can hurt a bit.

Like skiing with bent knees makes the moguls fun, you need to take risks, get out of your comfort zone, have a positive attitude, and enjoy the bumps in the road. I like to say that if things aren’t to your liking, change your liking.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

I always remember liking school.

I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

You can love somebody without liking them.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is that nothing's changed. You think boys grow out of not liking girls, but we don't grow out of it. We just grow horny. That's the problem. We mix up liking pussy for liking girls. Believe me, one couldn't have less to do with the other.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

Liking someone doesn't make you weak.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what you like but in liking what you have to do.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

I've always had girls liking me.

America, I appreciate you liking me.

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

The idea of someone not liking me or not liking my movie was always easier to deal with than someone really liking it. I don't know why.

With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it's a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.

Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.