A Quotes
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“a leather cuirass of boiled leather”
Source: Valor
“A leather jacket,” Kami said as he shrugged into it. “Aren’t you trying a little too hard to play into certain bad boy clichés?” “Nah”, said Jared. “You’re thinking of black leather. Black leather’s for bad boys. It’s all in the color. You wouldn’t think I was a bad boy if I was wearing a pink leather jacket.” “That’s true,” Kami said. “What I would think of you, I do not know. So what does brown leather mean, then?” “I’m going for manly,” Jared said. “Maybe a little rugged.” “It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.”
Source: Unspoken
“A LeBron James team is never desperate.”
“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”
“A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.”
“A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.”
“A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.”
“A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.”
“A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.”
“A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.”
“A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.”
“A legacy, by definition, must matter to others, because a legacy is something you leave behind—you won’t be here anymore to think it’s important.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone”
“A legacy is the impact and impression an individual makes and leaves behind in the lives of others; it no longer represents the individual, it represents the people who carry on his or her name with passion and integrity.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world’s largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty”
Source: DON JUAN
“A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“A legal profession which is diverse in every sense benefits us all.”
“A legal system that supports it's people when they are in the wrong is problematic.”
“A legal system that supports its people when they are in the wrong is problematic.”
“A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.”
“A legbensőségesebb emlékem Őkelméről az állkapcsa szúróssága és a nyakszaga, amikor vacsoránál elnyomott az álom, és fölvitt lefeküdni. Vékony nyaka volt, de jó meleg szaggal [...]”
Source: Infinite Jest
“A legend - now I am like a unicorn.”
“A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.”
“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.”
“A legend of the desert tells the story of a man who wanted to move to another oasis, and began to load
up his camel. He piled on his rugs, his cooking utensils, his trunks of clothes -and the animal accepted it
all. As they were leaving, the man remembered a beautiful blue feather his father had given him. He
retrieved it and placed it on the camel's back. With that, the animal collapsed of the weight and died.
“My camel couldn't even bear the weight of a feather,” the man must have thought. Sometimes we think
the same of others -without understanding that our little joke may have been the drop that caused the
goblet of suffering to overflow.”
Source: Maktub
“A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.”
Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians
“A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity.”
Source: The Analects
“A legfontosabb, amit az iskolában megtanulunk, az az, hogy a legfontosabb dolgokat nem lehet az iskolában megtanulni." (50. old.)”
Source: Miről beszélek, amikor futásról beszélek?
“A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.”
Source: The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall
“A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.”
“A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.”
“A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.”
“A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.”
“A lei é uma forma ardilosa de burlar a Justiça.”
“A leitura dos jornais, sempre penosa do ponto de ver estético é-o frequentemente também do moral, ainda para quem tenha poucas preocupações morais.
As guerras e as revoluções - há sempre uma ou outra de que narram - chegam, na leitura dos seus efeitos, a causar não horror mas tédio. Não é a crueldade de todos aqueles mortos e feridos, o sacrifício de todos os que morrem batendo-se, ou são mortos sem que se batam, que pesa duramente na alma: é a estupidez que sacrifica vidas e haveres a qualquer coisa inevitavelmente inútil. Todos os ideais e todas as ambições são um desvio de comadres homens.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“A leitura é só um pretexto para que nossos corpos fiquem colados, como uma escultura, fundidos de maneira que ao tentar separar um do outro, ou a obra permance intacta ou ela se perde por completo”
“A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.”
“A lemon flower stands for clarity, happiness, and hope," I told him, still feeling confused. "That's what my mom always said."
Rory studied the necklace and then me. "Clarity, happiness, and hope, huh?" His gaze was warm on my face. "Can I buy it for you?" He turned to the artist and pulled out his wallet.
"You don't have to---" I protested, but he was already handing over the cash.
"Please? I want to. Every time you wear it, you can be reminded to never give up hope, to seek happiness, and to remember that life is full of second chances.”
Source: The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
“A lemon tree was nearly universal; other trees varied with climate - almond trees in Adelaide and Perth, plums and apples in Melbourne, choke vines and bananas in Sydney and Brisbane, a mango in Cairns, figs and loquats everywhere. For a few weeks, there was a gross overabundance of fruit and much trading ('I'll take some of your plums if you take some of my apples next month').”
“A Lenina le resultaba muy inquietante. En primer lugar, su manía de hacerlo todo en privado. Lo que en la práctica significaba no hacer nada en absoluto. Porque ¿qué podía hacerse en privado?”
Source: Brave New World
“A Leo is not after a status. A Leo is the status.”
“A leopard can't change its spots.. but a Cosmetologist can.”
“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”
“A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.”
“A les Illes Balears, al País Valencià o a Catalunya, la manera més adequada de viure és sent fidel a uns orígens i a un projecte de recuperació del poble que l'envolta, ja que em pense que, per mitjà d'aquesta voluntat, es pot arribar a un equilibri satisfactori entre individualitat i societat.”
Source: Mozaik multilingue minim: eskrit segons el Projekte d'Ortografia Fonetica Unika Europea
“A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.”
Source: The aerial letter
“A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself.”
Source: Sappho was a right-on woman: a liberated view of lesbianism
“A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.”
Source: The aerial letter