L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.”
Source: The spectator
“Laughter. It connects me to the moment, the people around me, nothing like a good belly laugh to feel alive. And having sex outdoors, of course...”
“Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.”
“Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.”
Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
“Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.”
“Laughters Unites”
“Launch and learn. Everything is progress.”
Source: The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms
“Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.”
“Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.”
“Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.”
“Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.”
“Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.”
“Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.”
“Launching a new book is kind of scary; you spend such a long time alone with your characters, and then, in one sudden moment, they’re running wild into the hands of strangers…”
“Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.”
“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts.”
Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“Launching a similar product still needs some kind of differentiation.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.”
“Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.”
Source: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
“Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.”
“Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown
“Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.”
“Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower.”
“Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.”
Source: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and
“Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science astrology or astromancy may trace her life and character, if they wish, among the stars, where no doubt it is all written.”
“Laura also tried to comfort her staff (after 9/11), but Kathi Card never saw fear in her. "Someone with a strong faith is not a fearful person." Card said.”
Source: Laura Bush:An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady
“Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.”
“LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:
“Truth is always wilder than fiction.
Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.”
“Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.”
Source: The Getting of Wisdom
“Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.”
“Laura described the remnants of snake devotion still found in rural villages of the Black and Adriatic Seas. There, people believed black or green snakes bore guardian spirits who protected their cattle and their homes. In her travels Laura saw ornamental snakes carved to decorate the roofs and windows for protection. Great good fortune came to anyone who met a big white snake wearing a crown,; the crowned snake was the sister of the waterbird goddess, owner and guardian of life water and life milk.”
Source: Gardens in the Dunes
“Laura Dillard." It seemed impossible that he could share this with Catherine Marks, but she seemed to object he would. And somehow he was obliging her. "Beautiful girl. She loved to watercolor. Few people are good at that, they're too afraid of making mistakes. You can't lift the color or hide it, once it's put down. And water is unpredictable- an active partner in the painting- you have to let it behave as it will. Sometimes the color diffuses in ways you don't expect, or one shade backruns into another. That was fine with Laura. She liked the surprises of it. We had known each other all during childhood. I went away for two years to study architecture, and when I came back, we fell in love. So easily. We never argued- there was nothing to argue over. Nothing in our way.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Laura explained that her mother “went on tirades.” Something could set her off and she would whirl around the house like a cyclone. The warning signal was “the look.” The look was a piercing, threatening glare that meant “I could kill you.” When Laura was a child, her mother actually said it, with no awareness of the power of her words.”
Source: Understanding the Borderline Mother
“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
“Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura is the most different from me personally that I've ever played. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went. I'm like that, and that is not Laura at all.”
“Laura I am not careless about the feelings I have for you. I never expected to find myself wanting to share my life with another person again. As the years passed, I thought it was most unlikely, and now I see myself believing that to love someone is a connection to the deepest levels of the human heart. It isn’t about analyzing why or deciding if it is the right thing to do…, It is beyond that.”
In a less serious tone, he asked, “Laura, do you think you could trust your heart? Could you just let soar whatever rises naturally in you, when you are not asking yourself, ‘What if?’
“I’m a patient guy, Laura. You may not be right where I am, but I am willing to wait until you are. I want you to be the love I could never forget, nor would want to forget, and I am eager to accept what comes with this kind of commitment.”
Laura felt the uplift Jacob’s words brought her. Her heart fluttered, yet like a bird about to fly, she grasped it in her mind and arrested its flight.
Jacob sensed the distance she was putting between them. Glancing down, he saw her hand, slightly splayed, lightly touching his chest It was a clear message, a barrier to him reaching out and gently folding her to him. But he covered his hand over hers and placed it over her heart.
“Can you listen to your heart? It likes me.” He pleaded.”
“Laura, illustrious through her own virtues, and long famed through my verses, first appeared to my eyes in my youth, in the year of our Lord 1327, on the sixth day of April, in the church of St. Clare in Avignon, at matins; and in the same city, also on the sixth day of April, at the same first hour, but in the year 1348, the light of her life was withdrawn from the light of day, while I, as it chanced, was in Verona, unaware of my fate...”
“Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.”
“Laura, istriku. Cintaku hanya kuberikan untukmu dan Prapti. Kalau akhirnya kau menemukan jodohku nanti, penggantimu itu statusnya tidak lain dari mata air yang hanya kubutuhkan ketika aku menginginkan air. Tidak lebih dari itu, karena aku memang tidak ingin mengangkatnya ke tingkat yang lebih tinggi. Bagimu ini mungkin menyakitkan karena aku memperlakukan kaum sejenismu sebagai alat yang hanya kuperlukan sewaktu-waktu. Apa boleh buat. Maafkan aku kalau aku tidak dapat memberikan cintaku kepada orang lain selain padamu dan Prapti. Karena cinta yang tidak dapat kuberikan kepada orang lain itu pulalah, surat ini kutulis di malam yang telah mulai larut ini. Hanya itu yang ingin kukatakan.”
Source: Wanita Itu Adalah Ibu
“Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.”
“Laura ne semble pas se douter de sa puissance ; pour moi qui pénètre dans le secret de mon cœur, je sais bien que jusqu’à ce jour, je n’ai pas écrit une ligne qu’elle n’ait indirectement inspirée. Près de moi, je la sens enfantine encore, et toute l’habileté de mon discours, je ne la dois qu’à mon désir constant de l’instruire, de la con-vaincre, de la séduire. Je ne vois rien, je n’entends rien, sans penser aussitôt : qu’en dirait-elle ? J’abandonne mon émotion et ne connais plus que la sienne. Il me pa-raît même que si elle n’était pas là pour me préciser, ma propre personnalité s’éperdrait en contours trop vagues ; je ne me rassemble et ne me définis qu’autour d’elle. Par quelle illusion ai-je pu croire jusqu’à ce jour que je la façonnais à ma ressemblance ? Tandis qu’au contraire c’est moi qui me pliais à la sienne ; et je ne le remarquais pas ! Ou plutôt : par un étrange croisement d’influences amoureuses, nos deux êtres, réciproquement, se déformaient. Involontairement, inconsciem-ment, chacun des deux êtres qui s’aiment se façonne à cette idole qu’il contemple dans le cœur de l’autre… Quiconque aime vraiment renonce à la sincérité.”
Source: The Counterfeiters
“Laura: ¿Qué valoras más en una mujer?
Víctor: Su valentía para enfrentar los problemas, su capacidad de emocionarse ante el dolor ajeno, su inteligencia, carácter. Que no se subestime, honesta, segura, de esas que le brillan los ojos en la intimidad.”
Source: El secreto del amor está en el limón
“Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.”
Source: The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
“Laura, this isn't love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you'll come back.'
'No, it can't.' The afternoon shadows grew long and cold. In spite of the chill, a heat rose up inside her and flooded her face. 'That's how you know it's true love. When he can't live without you.'
Karen shook her head. 'That's how you know it's obsession. Or something else.”
Source: The Boy on the Bridge
“Laura turns her gaze back to me, smirking mischievously. “Do you like chocolate?”
I notice a delighted grin forming on my face. “‘Like’ is not the right word. I LOVE chocolate!”
Source: Flowing like Water
“Laura was ten feet away, in a throne-like chair,
facing Paul, but not looking at him, or anyone, it seemed. Paul openly stared at her for around ten seconds, to no response, then moved chips and guacamole onto his lap (partly because he felt anxious about Laura seeming to refuse to look at him) and focused on steadily eating while repeatedly thinking “eating chips and guacamole.”
Source: Taipei
“Laura won’t hurt you,” I said, wrestling him for control. “She’s one of the sweetest ghosts I ever met. She just likes to play.” “Yeah, I bet. With my bones, if I had any!” “She isn’t like that!” “Sure. ’Cause when the innocent little girl shows up in a horror flick, it’s always a good thing!”
Source: Tempt the Stars: A Cassie Palmer Novel
“Laura's [my sister] rooting for her brother. She'd better. She's known him a lot longer than me.”
“Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.”
“Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?”
Source: The Optimist's Daughter
“Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .”