L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture.
But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces.”
Source: The Doll
“Lumea asta-i o hazna, Treanţă! Mie omu mi-e duşman. Să nu-l văd…”
Source: Groapa
“Lumea este susținută de rostirea cuvintelor.”
Source: Kaddish
“Lumea i se clătinase în momentul în care sărutându-l i-am pus venin pe limbă. Ajunsese într-un stadiu în care nu mai ştia dacă sunt copil sau femeie, dacă domin sau mă las dominată, dacă îl vreau sau dacă mă joc cu mintea lui, iar adevărul era că am fost construită dintr-un amestec echilibrat din toate. Doze precise ce îl duceau pe culmile plăcerii, ori îi ofereau cea mai crudă suferință. Iubeam momentele în care disprețul de pe fața mea îi rupea sufletul, şi iubeam de două ori mai tare să-l văd dându-şi ochii peste cap şi lingăndu-se pe buze. Niciodată separate, un fel bizar de Ying şi Yang, ce îl făcea deseori să-mi mărturisească nevrotic că sunt un drac cu ochii verzi şi chip de înger. Şi cu toate astea, prefera iadul cu mine atât timp cât îl parcurgea ținându-mă de mână.”
Source: Plăceri de diamant
“Lumea nu este o justificare a lui Dumnezeu, istoria însă, este una a omului.”
Source: Schimbarea la față a României
“Lumea nu merită sacrificiul de a trăi pentru ea, cu atât mai puțin de a muri.”
Source: The Robe
“Lumikki didn't bother saying that she was more likely to get bored being around other people, listening to their pointless small talk. Better off alone than in bad company. When she was alone, she could be completely herself. Free. No one demanding anything. No one talking when she wanted silence.”
Source: As Red as Blood
“LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.”
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
“Luminous Processes,' declared the local paper, 'seems to put profits before people.'
How quickly we forget.”
“Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Luminous,
unfearful;
high-priestesses,
our fervour
shall banish
all evil.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.”
“Lumumba praised Leopold as a genius and builder of the Congo; in his fierce speech of June 30, 1960, he denounced 9 forms of violence, but the "severed hands" and the "chicotte" (whip) were not among them. The chicotte was part of the sharia and the Arab slave traders, but it was banned in the law that was introduced by Leopold after 1885 for Congolese citizens.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“Lumé's crown and scepter! I never thought I'd see the day when your voice would give me joy!"
There was a long pause. Then, "Dragon-eaten vapors. For a moment, I thought that was real. Ah well. . ."
"No! Glomar!" Eanrin shouted. "Glomar, you blundering oaf of a badger-man, stay where you are!"
"That was more like. Is that you there, cat?”
Source: Starflower
“Luna, a figure sculpted from the very heart of the Louisiana bayou, stood as the focal point of the glade. Her existence seemed interwoven with the very fabric of the swamp, a living embodiment of its mysteries and resilience. Her deep eyes, pools of ancient knowledge that seemed to hold the secrets of generations past, pierced through the assembled gathering, reading the intentions and desires etched on each face. Nothing could be hidden from Luna; she saw through facades and touched the raw, untamed truth within each soul. Tonight, she was dressed to honor the union of Elara and Declan, a sacred duty held with the utmost reverence. Her indigo dress, hand-dyed with pigments extracted from the swamp flora and adorned with symbolic beadwork depicting the creatures of the swamp - the watchful alligators, the nimble herons, the elusive panthers - spoke of her heritage and her sacred role as a conduit between the human and spirit realms. The intricate patterns were more than mere decoration; they were a visual prayer, a testament to the delicate balance of life within the bayou's embrace.”
Source: Under The Blood Moon
“Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends . . . friends . . . friends . . .”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Luna hated her split tongue. It gave her a slight lisp. Bluebell just thought it was cute.”
Source: Everyday Magic
“Luna is really the mother of the Sun, which means, psychologically, that the unconscious is pregnant with consciousness and gives birth to it.”
Source: Opere vol. 14: Mysterium coniunctionis
“Luna luase aspectul unui cap de înger cu aureolă și trup de nori. Treptat, norii s-au îndepărtat, lăsând-o golașă pe cerul albastru. Încet-încet se stingea... Lumina îmi strângea sufletul, mototolindu-l ca pe o hârtie pe care mi-am notat greșit sentimentele, aruncând-o în gunoiul zilei.”
Source: korsakoff - doar inceputul
“Luna, my neighbor, is the one who usually saves the injured birds, frogs, cats, stray dogs, and there was even a deer once.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“Luna pursed her lips. She might be his queen, but he would never be her King. “Kings cherish their queens, not destroy them,” she said before she realized she had said it.”
Source: Rise at Twilight
“Luna’s heart was pulled to her grandmother’s heart. Was love a compass?
Luna’s mind was pulled to her grandmother’s mind. Was knowledge a magnet?”
Source: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
“Luna said with a little squeak,
It is the BEST day of the week.
There's plenty of OINKINESS,
said Tawny, today.
And they SQUEAKED and they HOOTED
and went out to play!”
“Luna! Artemis! lovers' spats are icing on the cake! Your just showing off to us single people! -Minako”
“Lunacy is in the mind of the beholder.”
Source: Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight
“lunar angel of sweet water.”
“Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power.”
“Lunari… the one who must be protected from her own love.”
Source: Before the Eyes of Passion
“Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“Lunatics are writers whose works write them.”
Source: Ghostwritten
“Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.”
Source: The Sound of the Mountain
“Lunch, an orgy of gastronomic delight.”
“Lunch had been at a McDonald’s in Santa Barbara. It had been so clean. It had smelled like food. It had sounded happy and alive. In the bathroom, the toilet flushed. Water ran in the sink.
He had passed a trash can on the way back to his table and stopped just to look at it. It was full of food. Leftover burgers, the last few fries, smears of ketchup on cardboard. He’d had to hold back tears when he saw it.
“Candy bar?” Vicky asked, and held a Snickers out to him.
At that moment they slowed to turn off the highway and head cautiously, carefully, through recently bulldozed streets, toward the town plaza. That’s where the McDonald’s was. His McDonald’s.
A candy bar. People had killed for less.”
Source: Light
“Lunch,” I said. “I can do that. Like, you have no idea how much.”
“Good,” Kelly said softly. “Maybe we can go to the diner?”
I nodded. “Just … can you give me a minute? I’ll meet you out front. Don’t go anywhere, okay?”
“I won’t.” He nodded at the others and turned back toward the sidewalk.
I whirled around, eyes wide. “What do I do?”
“He’s literally standing five feet away,” Gordo said dryly.
I lowered my voice. “What do I do?”
Gordo sighed and turned his eyes toward the ceiling. “I deserve this. For everything I’ve ever done, I deserve this.”
Source: Heartsong
“Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body...I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.”
“Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.”
“Lunch makes me feel a bit better.”
“Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.”
“Lunch started off tense after our heated moment. Thank goodness for Blake. Kai was warm toward him, reserving his coolness for me. I watched, keeping quiet. They fought over the last piece of General Tso’s shrimp, and I had to laugh when the little thing went flying in the air and landed in a wet footprint next to the pool.
“You can have it,” Kaidan graciously offered, and Blake shoved him one last time.”
“Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.”
Source: Shiver
“Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.”
Source: Johnson's Dictionary: A Modern Selection
“Luncher is a combo of lunch and dinner. Too late for lunch, but too early for dinner. Trademark pending.”
Source: The One You Want
“Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did you get inside without any of us hearing you?" "I came in the door, of course," Terence replied, stepping forward. He held two swords in scabbards, which he tossed onto Luneta's bed as he approaced. "For anyone else, the hinges would have squeaked," Luneta's father muttered.”
Source: The Lioness and Her Knight
“Lung testing has shown that I have an above average lung volume which is consistent with a decade of high altitude work.”
“Lung ventilators are the COVID-19 treatment and isolation combined with taking supplements prior to infection is the prevention.”