L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Leer te hace querer cosas que no sabías que querías. Antes de perderte entre las páginas eres una persona y al cerrar un libro te conviertes en otra.”
Source: Sonríe para mí
“Leer un buen libro es casi como estar en la luna. Durante esos instantes, mientras te sumerges entre las páginas, dejas de tener los pies en la tierra, viajas lejos, a otros lugares, a otros mundos, a otras vidas...”
“Leer y escribir es una cita a ciegas con uno mismo”
“Lees alles wat ge tegenkomt (...).”
Source: Alfabet van de copywriter
“Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.”
Source: The Sorcerer Heir
“Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty:
"'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may occur before September 1983. The one place it could cut or reduce is item 7, the simultaneous interpreter services, if these services could be provided gratis by the U.S. government.'"
"In other words, the only way to make a saving on a U.S.-subsidized project is to take money out of another U.S.-subsidized column.”
“Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.”
“Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and snow, thrust an implacable being into the blue. In the early light, the rock shadows on the snow are sharp; in the tension between light and dark is the power of the universe. This stillness to which all returns, this is reality, and soul and sanity have no more meaning than a gust of snow; such transience and insignificance are exalting, terrifying, all at once…Snow mountains, more than sea or sky, serve as a mirror to one’s own true being, utterly still, utterly clear, a void, an Emptiness without life or sound that carries in Itself all life, all sound.”
Source: The Snow Leopard
“Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite cheerful again. It was ridiculous to brood, she told herself.”
Source: Sleep It Off Lady: Stories
“Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.”
“Left alone, the Florida panther would be remembered as a textbook exercise on how to go extinct while your abundant and vociferous advocates argue about the process.”
Source: Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors
“Left alone with our own heads on, we can be pretty mental.”
“Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?”
“Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.”
Source: Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series
“Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.”
“Left behind as a memory for us.
[Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]”
“Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.”
“Left brain interpreter.
Vindication has more energy than facts.”
“Left Eye, man...who else has more personality than Left Eye?”
“Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.”
“Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot . . . That's all that's on my mind at the runway, just walking - it's mad. This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough. I mean, this has been really tough. That's the most embarrassing thing about it, like, "This walking thing is crazy".”
“Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.”
“Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.”
“Left-Handers are not different because they are unique; They are unique because they are different.”
“Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.”
“Left me here to cry alone with a bottle of juice and pork chop bone.”
“Left” of something means literally the opposite of what you want it to, if the person you’re speaking to is on the other side of what you’re looking at. Your left is his or her right. It’s easier to say north, south, east or west, or reference another landmark, such as closer to the ocean, or sunset, because then it doesn’t matter what direction one is facing while giving directions.”
Source: sciVive
“Left Or Right, Short Or Straight, Don’t Come In FRONT Of ME, I Am Muneeswaran, MURUGA PERUMAL”
“Left right left right left
Exercise is good I think while
Sitting on the treadmill”
“Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.”
Source: Insectlopedia
“Left side, he is injured. Hold me close right.”
“left the dig because I feared that Lawson’s discovery rendered the whole enterprise meaningless.”
Source: Omphalos
“Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.”
Source: Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
“Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.”
“Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.”
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty.”
“Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.”
“Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.”
“Left to my own devices, it won’t take long before my conscience will be overrun by my greed. And if my devices are that faulty, I need to turn to a God who is not.”
“Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.”
“Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.”
“Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?”
“Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.”
“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically literate democracy, and even suggests a statement of purpose for it (a surprisingly elusive principle in higher education today). The goal of education is to make up for the shortcomings in our instinctive ways of thinking about the physical and social world. And education is likely to succeed not by trying to implant abstract statements in empty minds but by taking the mental models that are our standard equipment, applying them to new subjects in selective analogies, and assembling them into new and more sophisticated combinations.”
Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
“Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“Left to Tell reminds us that we are all sons and daughters of God; that with faith, miracles will always appear; and that forgiveness is the key to freedom. A must-read for all of us in these troubled times.”
“Left to their own devices, humans will inevitably resort to baser impulses, to self-eradicating violence. Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be driven to destroy…Left to their own devices, humans will inevitably care for another at great detriment to themselves. Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be compelled to save it. It is not one side or the other. Both are true. Flip the coin and see where it lands.”
Source: The Atlas Complex
“Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.”
Source: The Coast of Utopia Trilogy
“Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.”