L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lying there Ma said, "You all listen now, this is a real lesson in life. Yes, we got stuck, but what'd we girls do? We made it fun, we laughed. That's what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, 'specially in the mud.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.”
“Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.”
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
“Lying to protect someone may be logically wrong but emotionally right.”
“Lying to someone who already knows the truth is like trying to teach a fish how to swim — unnecessary, futile, and likely to leave you all wet.”
“Lying to the American people wasn’t part of my job description.”
“Lying to the Left is like water to fish”
“Lying to the masses is a normal aspect of business for corrupt corporate controlled governments.”
“Lying to yourself is easy, too. I know. It's much harder to stay and deal with consequences.”
Source: Sea Glass
“Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”
“Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.”
Source: The Road
“Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you.”
“Lying underneath this majestic memorial of military grandeur(Arc de Triomphe) is the "Tomb to the Unknown Soldiers". The edifice affirms the bloody truth that statehood requires triumph, and triumph requires sacrificial death.”
Source: Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
“Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.”
“Lying with lovers also belonged to night, and that made sense, for it was in the midst of true darkness that the first fire of life was born, flickering awake to drive back the unchanging absence of light. To lie with a lover was to celebrate the creation of fire. From this in the flesh to the world beyond.”
Source: The Bonehunters
“Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.”
Source: British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage
“Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Lying, like license, has its degrees.”
“Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.”
“Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Lyla felt his body go rigid a moment before his fist flashed out. Blade deflected Gavin’s punch before it connected with Carmen’s face. The air around them went electric as Gavin went apeshit and launched himself at Carmen. Guards went flying and blood sprayed the luxurious carpet as Gavin’s security team tried to restrain him. Flight attendants screamed and ran off the jet. Lyla caught a glimpse of Gavin's face, contorted with blind rage. It made her hands clammy with fear. It took nearly ten minutes for his men to pin him down.”
Source: Recaptured by the Crime Lord
“Lyla was a lamb in a city of wolves.
And I had just caught her scent.”
Source: Eyes on You a Mafia Romance
“Lyly placed her fingers over Patrick’s mouth. “Hush,” she whispered. “It was because of me and my family that you suffered-” Patrick’s arms closed around her. He placed his warm lips over hers. Her mind whirled and her heart pounded.”
Source: The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper
“Lyly screamed and ran to Tyler. “I can’t let you go until I tell you.” “Tell me what?” Tyler asked. “You’re the coolest boy I ever met. I will never forget you. I dreamt of a boy with two different colored brown eyes, and that boy showed me the way home. It was written in the stars, Tyler,” Lyly said. “I will remember you forever.”
Source: The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper
“Lyme disease is preventable, but only if Canadians have the information they need to prevent it.”
Source: Rain on a Distant Roof: Personal Journey Through Lyme Disease in Canada, A
“Lyme is a word. Not a sentence.”
Source: Path of Hope: Daily Reflections on Hope from the Psalms for the Lyme Disease Journey
“Lyn, this was the “Aha!” moment when Desta found another astonishing skeleton. Remarkably, it appeared utterly human but existed before humans walked the Earth. Clutched in its hand a small sphere attached to an elaborate gold necklace. The sphere was not like any material on Earth. Remember when I told you our origins might lie in the stars? Well, I think we found the answer in the Afar desert
Max”
Source: The Starlight Prophecy
“Lynch mobs are democracies.”
Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals
“Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.”
“Lynching is color line murder.”
“Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!”
“Lynching of Indian Muslims has become a routine, Muslims are killed in anti-Muslim riots, they are evicted from their properties, looting and violence are the norm, mosques are burnt and vandalized. India has learned to live with it. Not only news channels and reporters but also opposition parties have now stopped pretending to pay attention to it.”
“Lynchings in the past have significantly shaped race relations in the present. A killing such as George Floyd’s lands on black people with a much heavier psychological weight because of lynching’s legacy. Too many white people fail to recognize this, and that needs to change. The hurt is too great, the simmering fear and anger too volatile, to bury forever. All Americans who would seek or demand a nation that is fairer to every citizen, less racist, and more peaceful have a responsibility to know this history in detail. … Confronting this ugliness would be difficult for everyone, of course, but it should be attempted. Ignorance and denial certainly have not worked, because this American wound still bleeds.”
-- “Why White America Must Learn the History of Lynching”, Skeptical Inquirer (December 2020)”
“Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.”
“Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.”
“LYNDA (TO TINY):
Look forward to the moment
when it falls apart.
Look forward to the
moment
when you must
rearrange your
heart.
It might feel like the
end of the world-
but it's the
beginning of your
art.”
Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
“Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.”
“Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.”
“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.”
“Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.”
“Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.”
“Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973
“Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only in the South, we were so restricted. And he wanted everybody to live up to the best that God gave them and use those tools of education and have good health care, to be able to do the things to make America great.”
“Lyndon Johnson was a master of self-justification. According to his biographer Robert Caro, when Johnson came to believe in something, he would believe in it “totally, with absolute conviction, regardless of previous beliefs, or of the facts in the matter.” George Reedy, one of Johnson’s aides, said that he “had a remarkable capacity to convince himself that he held the principles he should hold at any given time, and there was something charming about the air of injured innocence with which he would treat anyone who brought forth evidence that he had held other views in the past. It was not an act… He had a fantastic capacity to persuade himself that the ‘truth’ which was convenient for the present was the truth and anything that conflicted with it was the prevarication of enemies. He literally willed what was in his mind to become reality.” Although Johnson’s supporters found this to be a rather charming aspect of the man’s character, it might well have been one of the major reasons that Johnson could not extricate the country from the quagmire of Vietnam. A president who justifies his actions only to the public might be induced to change them. A president who has justified his actions to himself, believing that he has the truth, becomes impervious to self-correction.”
“Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.”
“Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.”
“Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work”
“Lynet scowled. "I’m just so tired of young knights wearing their father’s armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.”
Source: The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf