L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.”
“Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.”
“Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.”
“Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.”
“Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.”
“Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion
“Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.”
“Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.”
“Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.”
“Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy
“Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio.”
“Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions”
“Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.”
“Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and ideas. Zora woke up this morning hopeful that a transformation of this kind might have visited her in the night, but, finding it hadn't, she did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”
Source: On Beauty
“Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.”
Source: Complete Adventures of Feluda
“Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.”
Source: Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage
“Last, I just want to thank God again. He's the first and the last. Alpha and Omega. I thank you for saving my life.”
“LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Lasten tehtävä on tuottaa vanhemmilleen karsea pettymys.”
Source: Kaikki elämästä
“Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.”
“Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.”
“Lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.
- The Silver Key”
Source: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror
“Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.”
“Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.”
Source: The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment
“Lasting change is a series of compromises.”
“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.”
“Lasting change is best achieved when the voices of those who are exploited are able to speak for themselves and are heard when they do so.”
Source: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
“Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves.”
“Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.”
“Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.”
Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
“Lasting habits can only be created when a person’s internal and external environments are aligned.”
Source: Vital Behavior Blueprint: 5 Steps to Embed Mission-Critical Habits into Your Organization's DNA
“Lasting happiness cannot be found in pursuit of any goal or achievement. It does not reside in fortune or fame. It resides only in the human mind and heart, and it is here that we hope you will find it.”
Source: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.”
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
“Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.”
“Lasting happiness starts with one question...what can I celebrate?”
“Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.”
“Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.”
“Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.”
“Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.”
“Lasting loyalty is proven through actions, not words.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.”
“Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
“Lasting peace is inner peace, and the more we master it, the more we assist in creating a more peaceful collective. Real strength and real knowledge come from within. Learn to commune with yourself often. Everything is within us. We need only to remember.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“Lasting peace is not brokered at tables, it’s built in hearts willing to listen before they speak.”
“Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.”
“Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
Source: The Vagina Monologues
“Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.”
Source: Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul
“Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.”
“Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.”