L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.”
Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
“Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness”
“Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.”
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
“Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.”
“Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.”
“Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars."”
“Laxatives will always win the race.”
“Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Lay a golden egg.
After you built a nest,
You wait for a leg.
And you land next.
Now you hope and pray.
Expect for the best.
Go on with no delay.
Get it right at last.”
Source: ACross Tic
“Lay a solid foundation for the future generations yet to be born.”
“Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.”
“Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country.”
Source: Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings
“Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“Lay aside what lies behind, be faithful in what remains, and step with hope into the unfolding future.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Lay down a map of the land; over that, set a map of political change; over that, a map of the Net, especially the counter-Net with its emphasis on clandestine information-flow and logistics and finally, over all, the 1:1 map of the creative imagination, aesthetics, values. The resultant grid comes to life, animated by unexpected eddies and surges of energy, coagulations of light, secret tunnels, surprises.”
Source: TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
“Lay down an unforgiving spirit, because there'll be no peace until you do.”
“Lay down Facebook and lift up your face. Put down Facebook so that you might spend some undistracted time face-to-face with Him. Your face in His book: that’s the Facebook you need right now.”
Source: The 40-Day Social Media Fast: Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion
“Lay down, please.” Samuel’s voice stroked my ears like a man seducing his lover after they’d suffered a long absence.”
Source: Escape
“Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
Leave in its track the toiling plough;
The rifle and the bayonet-blade
For arms like yours were fitter now;
And let the hands that ply the pen
Quit the light task, and learn to wield
The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
The charger on the battle-field.”
“Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.”
“Lay down the thorn, boy king. Haven’t you earned a bit of rest? Aren’t you tired?'
He was. Saints, he was. He thought he had grown used to his scars, but he had never grasped how much of his will it would take to hide them. He had fought and sacrificed and bled. He had gone long days without rest and long nights without comfort. All for Ravka, all for an ideal he would never attain and a country that would never care.”
Source: King of Scars
“Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.”
Source: No nature: new and selected poems
“Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.”
“Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.”
“Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Lay down
Your tired & weary head my friend.
We have wept too long
Night is falling
And you are only sleeping
We have come to this journey's end
It's time for us to go
To meet our friends
Who beckon us
To jump again
From across a distant sky
A C-130 comes to carry us
Where we shall all wait
For the final green light
In the light of
The pale moon rising
I see far on the horizon
Into the world of night and darkness
Feet and knees together
Time has ceased
But cherished memories still linger
This is the way of life and all things
We shall meet again
You are only sleeping.”
Source: Mi Vida
“Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!”
“lay here and lose time with me, let me tell you of all the things i adore about you”
“lay here…
safe in the
morning light,
soft in the daylight,
until sunlight becomes
skin light,
breathe in and
let the flowers wrap
you up in sweet
until the air comes easy
from your chest,
until the sky becomes
something you can touch,
and the earth becomes
somewhere you can stay
and still have wings”
“Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.”
“Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.”
Source: Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...
“Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.”
“Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.”
“Lay low, play dumb, keep moving.”
“Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".”
“Lay me down,
Let the only sound,
Be the overflow,
Pockets full of stones.”
“Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.”
“Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.”
“Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.”
Source: Hamlet
“Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.”
Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author
“Lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
“Lay off with the 'You reason, so you don't feel' stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel. When people say we should only feel I am reminded of Göring, who said 'I think with my blood.' See where it led him.”
“Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!”
“Lay out your own goals and do things that make you happy.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Lay people are usually unaware that the scrupulous scholarly work achieved by modern biblical criticism … represented by scrupulous academic work over about 300 years, belongs among the greatest intellectual achievements of the human race. Has any of the great world religions outside of the Jewish-Christian tradition investigated its own foundations and its own history so thoroughly and impartially? None of them has remotely approached this. The Bible is far and away the most studied book in world literature.”
“Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.”
“Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.”
Source: Tao Te Ching