L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.”
“Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.”
“Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.”
“Lawless are they that make their wills their law.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“Lawless schools produce lawless children.”
“Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.”
Source: The courage to be happy
“Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.”
“Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.”
“Lawmakers, who rarely have an insight of a truly progressive and civilized society, decide on the perimeters of law based on their biases and knacks, and rarely on actual scientific evidence. It's like asking the blind to show the path. So, for law to be of actual use in the society at our current evolutionary stage, it must be cooked in the vessel of scientific findings with the fire of reasoning and compassion.”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: Second Series
“Lawn Lovely is a store two blocks from our house. It’s the place where Dad buys his lawn ornaments. A lot of lawn ornaments.
Dad is as nuts about lawn ornaments as he is about gardening. We have so many lawn ornaments in our front yard, it’s impossible to mow the lawn!
What a crowd scene! We have two pink plastic flamingos. A cement angel with huge white wings. A chrome ball on a silver platform. A whole family of plaster skunks. A fountain with two kissing swans. A seal that balances a beach ball on its nose. And a chipped plaster deer.”
Source: Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
“Lawns are a form of television”
Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
“Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.”
“Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The Wire. It was always planned that way; we didn't kill him because of anything he did, we don't kill off actors just to do it.”
“Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.”
“Lawrence has somehow boarded a rickety rollercoaster moving at a pace at which the world is a blur and the screws are half a turn away from it all falling apart.”
Source: To Help Just One: Stories to Comfort | Stories of Hope | Stories to Heal
“Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.”
“Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.”
Source: Cryptonomicon
“Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.”
“Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.”
“Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.”
“Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.”
“Lawrence probes the sensitivity and psychological detachment that man often feels towards his penis -- it does indeed seem to have a will of its own, an ego beyond its size, and is frequently embarrassing because of its needs, infatuations, and unpredictable nature. Men sometimes feel that their penis controls *them*, leads them astray, causes them to beg favors at night from women whose names they prefer to forget in the morning. Whether insatiable or insecure, it demands constant proof of its potency, introducing into a man's life unwanted complications and frequent rejection. Sensitive but resilient, equally available during the day or night with a minimum of coaxing, it has performed purposefully if not always skillfully for an eternity of centuries, endlessly searching, sensing, expanding, probing, penetrating, throbbing, wilting, and wanting more. Never concealing its prurient interest, it is a man's most honest organ.”
Source: Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
“Lawrencium is named after Ernest O. Lawrence, who created the cyclotron in 1934. Did you know there is a DC Comics character called Cyclotron who is an atomic scientist? He appeared in the Superman comics.”
Source: Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Actinide Knights
“Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.”
“Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.”
“Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.”
“Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.”
“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.”
Source: Project for a Perpetual Peace: A Philosphical Essay
“laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.”
“Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.”
Source: Discourses Concerning Government
“Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.”
“Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
“Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.”
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
Source: Jane Eyre: Easyread Edition
“Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.”
“Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.”
“Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.”
“Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.”
“Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.”
“Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.”
“Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.”
Source: Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace
“Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.”
“Laws are designed by corporate governments to control the behaviors of their mass populations.”