L Quotes
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“Lava crust," he said, voice hushed in wonder. "It's lava crust. The fire is burning within the creature's skin."
"No wonder it's in pain," Machiavelli muttered.
"You sound almost sorry for it," Dee snapped.
"I never traded my humanity for my long life, Doctor. I've always remembered my roots." His voice hardened, turning contemptous. "You worked so hard to be like your Elder master that you've forgotten what it is like to feel human—to be human. And we humans"—he stressed the last word—"have the capacity to feel another creature's pain. It is what lifted the humani above the Elders, it is what made them great."
—Michael Scott, The Magician”
Source: The Magician
“Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.”
“lavender and brandy
under your
tongue for an entire
weekend. blessed.
joy as a watermelon
seed i keep
swallowing on
purpose.”
“Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.”
“Lavender lilies all dotted with spots.
Sun-yellow daffodils clustered in pots.
Blue morning-glories climb trellises high.
Powder-white asters like stars in the sky.
Thick, pink peonies unfold in the sun.
Winter adieu now that spring has begun.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Lavender's thoughts returned to the poetry, and Robert reading it, canting, rich-toned, about hands, kisses.
It shall be you.
Having no smelling salts nearby, Lavender moved matters to a more pragmatic realm. "I must warm the tea," she told Robert. For the pot had sat, untouched, for some time, and had surely cooled.
(In the kitchen, she loosened her collar, to alleviate her overheated state, to avoid becoming a sweaty brook.)”
Source: The Apothecary's Garden
“Lavigerie was een geweldig praktisch man, en ook was hij historicus aan de Sorbonne in Frankrijk, waar hij die visie had om het binnenland van Afrika te reconstrueren, zoals dat in Europa in de Middeleeuwen was gedaan door een soort koninkrijk, maar dan ook met nederzettingen van bevrijde slaven, het grootste deel van de bevolking in Oost-Afrika was echt reddeloos, Lavigerie wilde daarom dat de missionarissen nederzettingen en missies bouwden, waarvoor hij broeders stuurde, voormalige Zoeavens, en paters, die dan de taal moesten leren, en ook moesten leren bouwen, en als die slaven bevrijd waren door de verschillende expedities die werden uitgezonden, werden ze naar de missies gestuurd. Het idee hierachter was heel praktisch, en ook het idee, dat de Afrikanen dit nieuwe Christelijke volk zouden worden, zoals hoe Clovis werd bekeerd, en dan geleidelijk aan Frankrijk, op die mythe bouwde hij alles. (Dr. H Hinfelaar, witte Paters)”
Source: Het einde van een tijdperk: 130 jaar belevenissen van Nederlandse missionarissen
“Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with commerce, with no empty warehouses to be found. He probably needs to build one, just to have a place to arrange late-night meetings. (Bewitched)”
Source: Tales of the Otherworld
“Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.”
Source: The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every
“Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.”
“Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.”
“Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.”
“Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity”
“Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.”
Source: Oldport Days
“Lavoisier's wife surely could have used a barf emoji, had she ever looked up the origin of 'helpmeet' and shared it with Charlotte Corday.
Lavoisier's wife's text: Can you even f**king believe this s**t? (Barf emoji here)
Lavoisier's wife's text back from bff Corday: OMG OF COURSE GENESIS, WTF”
Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
“Lavonas atrodydavo kaip tuščias vabzdžio kiautas voratinklyje - esybė būdavo išnykusi, šviesa išnykusi, nelikę to iliuzinio švytėjimo, kurį skleidžia kadai užgesusios žvaigždės. Kūnas būdavo netekęs sielos. Ir būtent sielos nebuvimas įkvėpė Harį tikėti.”
Source: The Devil's Star
“Lavorava al computer portatile da ore ma non era riuscito a trovare nessun luogo che accendesse la fantasia. Sebbene vi fossero molti paradisi sommersi, ogni destinazione gli sembrava scontata.
Non era questione del dove, ad attirarlo era l'inesplorato. Non desiderava semplicemente cambiare residenza o abitudini: voleva dare un significato diverso alla sua esistenza.”
Source: Freccia
“Lavoriamo duro per le nostre storie. Sono ciò che noi lasceremo qui quando non ci saremo più.”
“LAW 25
Re-Create Yourself
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“LAW 38
Think As You Like But Behave Like Others
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“LAW 4
Always Say Less Than Necessary
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“LAW 46
Never Appear Too Perfect
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“Law alone is sometimes insufficient to ensure justice.”
Source: Just Rights : Why Justice Should be A Fundamental Right
“Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.”
Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Law and custom are becoming the subjects of a new field of learning. The anarch endeavors to judge them ethnographically, historically, and also – I will probably come back to this – morally. The State will be generally satisfied with him; it will scarcely notice him In this respect he bears a certain resemblance to the criminal – say, the master spy – whose gifts are concealed behind a run-of-the-mill occupation.”
Source: Eumeswil
“Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.”
“Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)”
“Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.”
“Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.”
“Law and justice are not always the same.”
“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”
“LAW And JUSTICE Has Invented The LIE DETECTOR But They Are Yet To Invent The TRUTH DETECTOR”
“Law and justice may attenuate and collapse under the burden of one-sided personal affection, choice, and courtesy, which defines, not only the breach; it also describes a crime.”
“Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.”
“Law and Order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.”
“Law and order comes from having respect for one another.”
“Law and order embrace on hate's border.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.”
“Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.”
Source: Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion
“Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.”
“Law and policy are an aid to civic duty, not a substitute.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.”
“Law, at times, is gender biased and there is no remedy for false allegations against Mr.”
Source: Mr. - Untold story of husbands
“Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.”
“Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.”
Source: Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi
“Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.”
Source: Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)
“Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.”
Source: The Law