L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.”
“Leaving his country for his country's sake.”
“Leaving his hair, I sink to my knees before him.
'Violet-'
'I'm just taking off your boots.' A smirk plays at my lips as I unlace one, then the other, taking them off. I rise and carry his boots towards the armoire.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.”
Source: Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
“Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.”
“Leaving [home] was walking away from the side of a grave. The person wasn't there, only the body under the soil. Bodies of people we love die, we leave them. Something of them remains in us, something we have to keep like we would a fossil, a story no one remembers, a Logbook. I knew that a place is just a body, no longer alive without the people that ensoul it, but it still hurt to go.”
Source: All the Water in the World
“Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.”
Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between
“Leaving Humanity is only your decision.”
“Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.”
“Leaving is an act that cannot be undone.”
Source: What Lies Between Us
“leaving is not enough; you must
stay gone. train your heart
like a dog. change the locks
even on the house he’s never
visited. you lucky, lucky girl.
you have an apartment
just your size. a bathtub
full of tea. a heart the size
of Arizona, but not nearly
so arid. don’t wish away
your cracked past, your
crooked toes, your problems
are papier mache puppets
you made or bought because the vendor
at the market was so compelling you just
had to have them. you had to have him.
and you did. and now you pull down
the bridge between your houses,
you make him call before
he visits, you take a lover
for granted, you take
a lover who looks at you
like maybe you are magic. make
the first bottle you consume
in this place a relic. place it
on whatever altar you fashion
with a knife and five cranberries.
don’t lose too much weight.
stupid girls are always trying
to disappear as revenge. and you
are not stupid. you loved a man
with more hands than a parade
of beggars, and here you stand. heart
like a four-poster bed. heart like a canvas.
heart leaking something so strong
they can smell it in the street.”
“Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.”
Source: Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
“Leaving knots untied and scattering seeds to distract them will only work on vampires with OCD.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.”
“Leaving me alone with Malcolm Steele… How the hell will I survive???” ~ Starr Knight”
Source: Capture My Desires: Malcolm & Starr Part I
“leaving means living before we die”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.”
“Leaving my father behind—with all of his baggage—was like giving up an old teddy bear. You know it’s just an object, incapable of comforting you with its tattered fur and missing button eye, but it’s something you cling to, even though you know it can’t give anything back.”
Source: Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell
“Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.”
“Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.”
“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.”
“Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.”
Source: Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
“Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.”
Source: Mark Twain's Speeches
“Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth”
“Leaving professional astronomy was one of my better decisions.”
“Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room for interpretation; you either take all of it or none. There is no selective belief”
“Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.”
“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“Leaving society to algorithms will be like leaving healthcare to stethoscopes.”
Source: The Gospel of Technology
“Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.”
“Leaving some people is better than tolerating them.”
“Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.”
“Leaving that rotten place was not possible and staying would slowly unfold the nightmares.”
Source: Blanks & Blues
“Leaving the broken system the way it is, that`s not a solution.”
“Leaving the café, she turned left and returned to
the woods. Reaching a point where she was the only
human soul around, she looked up and said, “Okay! I
accept whatever has happened to me. That part of my
life is over. I’m done with it. I have let it go. I forgive
my father. I forgive him completely.”
A flock of birds flew above and a bluish-
grey feather fell right onto her nose. Olivia kissed it
and then tucked it inside her backpack.”
“Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems.”
“Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.”
“Leaving the feasibility of testicular transplants alone for the moment, she said, “It was mostly my mistake.”
Source: Drunk on You
“Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.”
“Leaving the home on that last night, I kiss her hands. You were so important, I tell her. You were so loved”
Source: Constellations: Reflections From Life
“Leaving the memories behind, I am nobody.
Carrying them with me, I am somebody.
In honor of the forgotten past,
I pen the verses of my heart.
I arise with the sound of my soul.
I arise to write my history on every page.
I arise to pay off my debt.
I arise to open my arms to this breaking dawn.”
“Leaving the path to follow the heart, to help someone, is anything... but reckless.”
Source: Immortals, Vol. II.
“Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.”
“Leaving the person I love in danger and continuing to live on is the same as being dead.
-Hyuga, Natsume”
“Leaving the solar power industry was one of my better career choices.”
“Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.”
Source: Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
“Leaving them alive would've been a sign of weakness, and Tatiana expects weakness from the 'emotional' races. What the bitch doesn't understand is that rage is an emotion, too.”
Source: Tangle of Need