L Quotes
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“Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.”
Source: The Dark Tower Boxed Set
“Legends had been written about less.”
Source: Wickedly Wonderful
“Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness”
Source: The Wicked King
“Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s”
“Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”
Source: The Dervish House
“Legends speak of a primeval Pacific homeland called "Hiva" from which the first inhabitants of Easter Island came--a homeland that also fell victim to the "mischief of Uoke's lever" and was "submerged under the sea." What is particularly intriguing about all this, because of its resonance with the Seven Sages--the Apkallu--spoken of in Mesopotamian antediluvian traditions, and with the Seven Sages of the Edfu Building Texts, who sought out new lands in which to recreate the drowned and devastated world of the gods, is that the Seven Sages--"king's sons, all initiated men"--are also said to have been instrumental in the original settlement of Easter Island. Exactly as was the case with the Apkallu, who laid the foundations of all the future temples of Mesopotamia, and with the Edfu Sages who traveled the length and breath of Egypt establishing the sacred mounds on which all future pyramids and temples were to be built, the first task of the Seven Sages from Hiva after their arrival on Easter Island was 'the construction of stone mounds.”
Source: Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
“Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.”
“Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)”
Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians
“Legends will rise, again. I am a Legend, and I rise again. Yesterday, I was born anew. Today, I come for you.”
“Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma.”
“Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma. Ci colpiscono degli altri le parole che risuonano in una zona già nostra – che già viviamo – e facendola vibrare ci permettono di cogliere nuovi spunti dentro di noi.”
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
“Leggendo storie meravigliose che a me non
potranno mai accadere, vivo la vita degli altri senza trovare la mia”
Source: Il male oscuro
“Leggere non è un passatempo da comitiva. Non è come andare a vedere un film o assistere a un concerto. È il margine più solitario dello spettro.”
Source: Non-Fiction
“Leggere un oggetto significa dimenticare un po' se stessi per fare posto al passato di un altro, mentre attraversare gli specchi significa affrontare se stessi. Ci vuole fegato per guardarsi negli occhi, vedersi per ciò che si è, immergersi nel proprio riflesso. Quelli che si mettono un velo davanti alla faccia, che mentono a se stessi e si vedono migliori di ciò che sono non ce la faranno mai. Credimi, non è cosa da tutti!”
Source: Les Fiancés de l'hiver
“Leggere è sempre questo: c'è una cosa che è lì, una cosa fatta di scrittura, un oggetto solido, materiale, che non si può cambiare, e attraverso questa cosa ci si confronta con qualcos'altro che non è presente, qualcos'altro che fa parte del mondo immateriale, invisibile, perché è solo pensabile, immaginabile, o perché c'è stato e non c'è più, passato, perduto, irraggiungibile, nel paese dei morti...
... O che non è presente perché non c'è ancora, qualcosa di desiderato, di temuto, di possibile o impossibile.”
“Leggiamo il libro ma, più profondamente, è il libro a leggere noi.”
Source: I libri hanno bisogno di noi
“Leggiamo per assaggiare la mediocrità e sentirci una schifezza; è un’esperienza che ci aiuta a riconoscere l’orrore quando comincia ad affiorare nel nostro lavoro, e a starne alla larga. Leggiamo anche per misurarci con la grandezza e il talento, per farci un’idea di tutto ciò che si può fare.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Leggiamo per porre rimedio alla nostra solitudine, anche se poi, di fatto, la nostra solitudine cresce parallelamente all'aumentare e all'approfondirsi delle nostre letture. Non riuscirei proprio a considerare il leggere come un vizio, ma va concesso che non si tratta neppure di una virtù.”
Source: Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
“Leggings are everywhere, indeed. Personally, I'm not crazy about them, but they can look great with the right look, a tunic, for instance, or a long cardigan. Just don't try to dress them up!”
“Leggings killed velour sweat suits! I used to only wear them until leggings came along.”
“Leggo my Eggo!”
“Leggo, per quanto è possibile, soltanto ciò di cui ho fame, nel momento in cui ne ho fame, e allora non leggo: mi nutro.”
Source: Waiting for God
“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.”
Source: An Essay on Typography
“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.”
“Legion, cuneum formate!’ Reyna yelled. ‘Advance!’ Another cheer on Jason’s right as Percy and Annabeth reunited with the forces of Camp Half-Blood.
‘Greeks!’ Percy yelled. ‘Let’s, um, fight stuff!’ They yelled like banshees and charged.
Jason grinned. He loved the Greeks. They had no organization whatsoever, but they made up for it with enthusiasm.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Legion floats in darkness. Silence.
It has been a long time since he knew such silence. As a child, he was taught to act in union with his two brothers. Their insane father insisted that he had only one child and refused to acknowledge more than one of them at a time. If more than one spoke, or made a fuss, or did anything to draw attention, or to threaten Father’s mad view of reality—one child, one child, ONE CHILD!—the repercussions were swift and painful.
So the three children learned to act in concert. What one learned, the others did. When one was injured—as happened often, given Father’s extreme methods of teaching—the others hurt themselves to match.
They had to match.
They had to act as one.
And eventually, madness being a most contagious disease, the three brothers genuinely believed themselves to be one.”
Source: Stranger Sins
“Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes’s skin. “Me no boy. You think me a boy?” Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron. Reyes was the first to find his voice. “You’re a…girl?” A nod. “Me pretty.” “Yes, you are.” Reyes exchanged a glance with Lucien. “Beautiful.”
Source: Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure
“Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle.”
“Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family”
“Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.”
“Legislar la moralidad hace crecer inmensamente al gran gobierno, y ayuda a moldear la soga que el gobierno usará para colgarle finalmente.”
Source: Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter
“Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.”
“Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.”
Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869
“Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.”
“Legislation has created usury; and the Mutual Bank can destroy it. Usury is a result of the legislation which establishes a particular commodity as the sole article of legal tender; and, when all commodities are made to be ready money through the operation of Mutual Banking, usury will vanish.”
Source: Mutual Banking
“Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939
“Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.”
“Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.”
Source: The Spinster Book
“Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.”
“Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.”
“Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.”
“Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.”
“Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
“Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.”
“Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.”
“Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so as to give their candidate an edge and allow the power of massive money to be felt. But reform laws will become irrelevant and redundant as the Internet replaces the special-interest fat cats as the best way to raise money and takes the place of TV as the most effective way to get votes.”
“Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people.”
“Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.”
Source: Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek