L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.”
Source: The Walk: A Novel
“Leah: "That is easily the freakin’ grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Yuck. If there was anything in my stomach, it would be coming back." Seth: "They are vampires, I guess. I mean, it makes sense, and if it helps Bella, it’s a good thing, right?" Leah and Jake stare at Seth. Seth: "What?" Leah: "Mom dropped him a lot when he was a baby." Jake: "On his head apparently." Leah: "He used to gnaw on the crib bars, too." Jake: "Lead paint?" Leah: "Looks like it." Seth: "Funny. Why don’t you two shut up and sleep?”
“Leak the air from their tires, call them in the middle of the night whispering sour nothings, let their dogs out of their yards... these men who hurt you, who wrong you, who hit you, make them miserable in every way you can. Some would call it spite, for women it will be called spite and being vindictive; while injured men receive their justice and pass out their vengeance, women will be called petty and catty, won't get to feel the honor a word like revenge endows upon men. You will. Inside you will declare it. You will declare victory when you hurt them back and move on from them faster than a machine hems a jean...”
Source: Wandering Stars
“Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.”
“Leaking of classified material is a concern.”
“Leaking roofs were a problem after hurricane Ian.”
“Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.”
“Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.”
“Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top”
Source: Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
“Leaky pipes lead to puddles of despair.”
“Lealtà, questa è la regola, perché l'anima non perda integrità e smalto.”
Source: Un uso qualunque di te
“Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene”
“Lean back into the arms of grace.”
Source: The Unmistakable Touch of Grace
“Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.”
Source: Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon
“Lean forward into your life...
catch the best bits and the finest wind.
Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit
and see how dramatically that small lean
can change your life.”
Source: Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon
“Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain...That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.”
“lean in to kiss me
in all the places
where the ache
is
the most special.”
“Lean into a giant dream and unlimited imagination.”
Source: Dream On: How to Create the New Life of Your Dreams After Upheaval or Loss
“Lean into joy: When the world seems to be falling apart, it can seem selfish or irresponsible to enjoy stuff. But joy is not frivolous—it’s fuel we need to continue fighting for a better world. Watch a funny show. Bake cookies. Befriend some raccoons and train them to fingerpaint. Remember that fascists hate joy and humor, and doing stuff fascists hate is always a good use of our time.”
“Lean into the discomfort of the work.”
“Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do”
“Lean liberty is better than fat slavery”
Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index
“Lean on hard or smart work, not shortcuts.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.”
“Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.”
“Lean on someone who isn't bothered about your weight.”
“Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Lean over," he growled. "Hands on the frame."
The brusque command thrilled her. She did as he asked, bending forward at the waist and bracing her hands on either side of the mirror's gilt frame.
He lifted her by the hips and pushed deep, claiming her in one powerful motion. As he took her in pounding thrusts, his flanks met her backside with sharp, rhythmic smacks. They echoed through the room, obscene and arousing. Soon these sounds were joined by low, primal grunts of satisfaction.
She watched him, captivated by the display of raw, unfettered male desire. Sweat broke out on his brow. His jaw clenched tightly, the tendons on his neck went rigid. He stared at the mirror, watching her breasts jiggle and sway with each thrust.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“Lean Pockets, I don't even wanna know what's in those. I wonder what the directions are on a box of Lean Pockets: 'Remove from box, place directly in toilet.' Flush Pocket!”
“Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.”
Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
“Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.”
Source: Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs
“Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.”
“lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.”
“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.”
“Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.”
Source: Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel
“Leaning against him, feeling the warmth radiate off him, listening to his breath go in and out, she knew she was exactly where she belonged.”
Source: All the Broken Pieces
“Leaning against his desk, Bob thought then of Little Annie, the plant that Lucy had. How Lucy was afraid that the plant had died, but it had not. Every leaf had fallen off, but then it broke through, a tiny little new green leaf at the top of it.
What a thing this life force was, Bob thought”
“Leaning against my car after changing the oil,
I hold my black hands out and stare into them
as if they were the faces of my children looking
at the winter moon and thinking of the snow
that will erase everything before they wake.
In the garage, my wife comes behind me
and slides her hands beneath my soiled shirt.
Pressing her face between my shoulder blades,
she mumbles something, and soon we are laughing,
wrestling like children among piles of old rags,
towels that unravel endlessly, torn sheets,
work shirts from twenty years ago when I stood
in the door of a machine shop, grease blackened,
and Kansas lay before me blazing with new snow,
a future of flat land, white skies, and sunlight.
After making love, we lie on the abandoned
mattress and stare at our pale winter bodies
sprawling in the half-light. She touches her belly,
the scar of our last child, and the black prints
of my hand along her hips and thighs.”
“Leaning against that wall, dispassionately sipping a beer, he was the kind of quiet I've noticed in certain men and long hungered for: the silence of men who have it all and thus find it all boring, who don't exert the energy necessary to flirt, persuade, or convince because they know America will come crawling to them on hands and knees.”
Source: How We Fight For Our Lives
“Leaning back against Cam's chest, I tipped my head back and I reached up, cupping his cheek. I drew his mouth to mine and kissed him softly. "Thank you." His lips curved up on one side. "For what?" "For waiting for me.”
“Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.”
“Leaning forward, she pressed her lips to his. His mouth was so still, so warm and perfect. Her closed eyes filled with dampness as she lingered over the sensation of touching his lips with hers.
It felt like saying goodbye to a man she had never met and could barely acknowledge to herself that she had truly wanted to.
Then he moved.
He moved.”
Source: Lionheart
“Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.”
“leaning in he kissed her gently, first on the cheek then on her lips. When he met her eyes, she saw the young man shed loved last summer and the young man she still loved now. "I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. and I never stopped thinking about you. even if summers do come and end" she smiled knowing he was telling the truth. "I love you too, Will Blakelee" she wispered, leaning in to kiss him again.”
“Leaning in until her lips almost touched his, she took in his breath, his life force, allowing the scents of musk and cinnamon and the heady spiciness of chocolate she always associated with him to capture and hold her, as it always had--- as he always had.”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“Leaning into our pain not only helps us solve our issues, it also helps us learn about them. Some things we can’t solve magically and some of them, if understood, can become strengths instead of weaknesses.”
Source: Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity
“Leaning on her elbow, she looked up at him with a smile that said she had known he would come.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Leaning on others is a beautiful act of self-compassion.”
Source: Protect Your Spark: How to Prevent Burnout and Live Authentically
“Leaning out into the evening air, I knew that this might never be given to us again, and yet I couldn't bring myself to believe it.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name