L Quotes
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“Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.”
“Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26.”
“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.”
Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays
“Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.”
“Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.”
“Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.”
“Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying attention to their state, they're certainly not paying attention to what's happening in other states.”
“Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.”
“Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction justify denying lesbians and gays a basic legal promise of non-discrimination in hiring, public accommodations, and housing? Surely the answer to this question is no. Correcting that inequity would begin the process of recognizing that both sides - gay couples and religious objectors - have rights and that reasonable accommodation is possible only when both sides have something to gain.”
“Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.”
Source: The Essential Jefferson
“Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.”
“Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.”
“Legislators, regardless of party, have an obligation to monitor the executive branch. They should do so fairly and respectfully, but above all, they should do so.”
Source: A Warning
“Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, and our legislatures are those instruments of government elected directly by and directly representative of the people, the right to elect legislators in a free and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system.”
“Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.”
Source: The memoirs of Earl Warren
“Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.”
Source: The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense
“Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.”
“Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.”
“Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.”
Source: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)
“Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.”
Source: Poems of Ambrose Bierce
“Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.”
“Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards liberals, who speak in a very hypocritical language about caring for their interests and yet support institutions that carry out an assault against working men and women.”
“Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.”
Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches
“Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.”
Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
“Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.”
“Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.”
Source: Freedom Under Siege
“Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.”
Source: Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French): An Adventure in Paris, Boule de Suif, Rust, Marroca, The Log, The Relic, Words of Love, Christmas Eve, Two Friends, Am I Insane?...
“Lego, brings my imagination to life.”
“LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they made the factory too easy to take apart and rebuild somewhere else.”
“LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.”
“Lego, however, is always opened and then left lying around so adults have something to tread on when they are prowling around around the house at two in the morning, in bare feet, looking for the source of a noise.”
Source: And Another Thing
“LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.”
“Lego, lets me build my imagination.”
“Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"”
“Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Legs with attitude.” Kyle’s tone warmed with approval. “Why don’t you bring those beauties over here. I got a spot all ready for ‘em.” He and his buddies all chuckled when he patted his lap.
I wasn’t exactly impressed. “I think these legs are fine where they are, thank you very much.”
Kyle wasn’t deterred at all by my rejection. “I wouldn’t have expected legs like those to be quite so shy.”
“Not shy,” I informed him. “Just holding out for a better offer.”
Source: V is for Virgin
“Lehet, hogy csak egy halandó élet hosszát tölthetjük együtt, de az teljességgel a miénk lesz, senki másé.”
Source: Ariadne
“Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity.”
“Lehrsätze finden ihre Wahrheit in ihrer kontrollierbaren Entsprechung zur vorliegenden erfahrbaren Wirklichkeit. Die Hoffnungssätze der Verheißung aber müssen in einen Widerspruch zur gegenwärtig erfahrbaren Wirklichkeit treten. Sie resultieren nicht aus Erfahrungen, sondern sind die Bedingung für die Möglichkeit neuer Erfahrungen. Sie wollen nicht die Wirklichkeit erhellen, die da ist, sondern die Wirklichkeit, die kommt. Sie wollen die Wirklichkeit, die da ist, nicht im Geiste abbilden, sondern die Wirklichkeit, die da ist, in die Veränderung hineinführen, die verheißen ist und erhofft wird. Sie wollen der Wirklichkeit nicht die Schleppe nachtragen, sondern die Fad\:el voran. Damit machen sie die Wirklichkeit geschichtlich. Wird aber die Wirklichkeit geschichtlich wahrgenommen, so muß man mit]. G. Hamann fragen: "Wer will vom Gegenwärtigen richtige Begriffe nehmen, ohne das Zukünftige zu wissen?”
Source: Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
“Lei accese le candele e chiuse le finestre per tenere fuori le falene. Quindi si tolse la giacca pesante e sciolse i capelli. Oh, sì, era bellissima stanotte. Ross la circondò con le braccia, il volto reso simile a quello di un ragazzino per le risate, e lei rise insieme a lui, la bocca e i denti che luccicavano umidi alla luce delle candele. A quel punto lui smise di sorridere e la baciò. «Ross» disse lei. «Mio caro Ross.» «Ti amo» disse lui, «e sono il tuo servo. Demelza, guardami. Se ti ho fatto del male in passato, concedimi la possibilità di fare ammenda.»”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Lei alza gli occhi. Pensa agli anni che fuggono. Un battito di ciglia, e metà della tua esistenza è andata.
Lui la osserva con gli occhi verdi dalle sfumature cangianti, ora color erba primaverile, ora color fogliame estivo. Le gira la testa. Cinquant’anni. Cento. Qualunque cifra sembra irrisoria.
commenta l’oscuro, leggendo nel suo silenzio. Gli occhi mutano di nuovo, di colpo più cupi. >”
“Lei chinò il capo per ascoltarlo. Jim notò che in qualunque ombra sedessero, c’era sempre una luce che cercava la pelle pallida e liscia della fronte di lei, la curva delle sue guance. Luce, c’era sempre luce per i suoi occhi.”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Lei era così, rompeva equilibri solo per vedere in quali altri modi poteva ricomporli.”
Source: L'amica geniale
“Lei era entrata in quella parte del cuore dove ci sono le cose più buone, quella simile a una credenza dei dolci
dove c'è la Nutella, i biscotti, le merendine, la marmellata; quell'angolo di cuore dove quando uno ci entra, succeda quel che succeda, da lì non uscirà mai. Non c'entra l'amore. Ci sono persone che da quando le conosci non smetti mai di volergli bene.”
Source: Esco a fare due passi
“Lei era la porta che avevo avuto il coraggio di aprire e che non riuscivo più a richiudere.”
Source: Il giorno in più
“Lei era tutto. Primo, costituiva una certezza attorno alla quale tutto girava, una certezza di libertà e un senso di sicurezza. E' stata quello che il grande poeta bengalese che cito sempre è riuscito così bene a descrivere, il palo al quale l'elefante si fa legare con un filo di seta. Se l'elefante dà uno strattone può scappare quando vuole, ma non lo tira. Ha scelto di essere legato con un filo di seta a quel palo.”
Source: La fine è il mio inizio
“Lei giacque tra le sue braccia per tutta la notte, sentendosi sedotta, protetta e amata. Si chiese quando la vita fosse diventata tanto dolce. Percepì che qualcosa di meraviglioso stava iniziando.”
“Lei gli domandò cosa ci fosse dall'altra parte del mare, e lui le rispose: "Il mondo”