L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.”
Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views
“Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.”
“Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.”
“Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.”
“Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.”
“leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.”
Source: The House
“Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.”
“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.”
Source: Adam Bede
“Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.”
Source: The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
“Leisure is not a relevant notion. Consider the weariness that often afflicts your kind, late in their lives. Then multiply that countless times. This is the burden of being long-lived.”
Source: Toll the Hounds
“Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.”
Source: THE ART OF TEACHING
“Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.”
“Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!”
Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life
“Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.”
“Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.”
“Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.”
Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.”
Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful.”
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
“Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.”
“Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.”
Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]
“Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.”
“Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”
Source: Hortus Vitae: And Limbo
“Leisure, the problem with the modern condition was the dearth of leisure. And finally, it took a force of nature to interrupt our routines. We just wanted to hit the reset button. We just wanted to feel flush with time to do things of no quantifiable value, our hopeful side pursuits like writing or drawing or something, something other than what we did for money.”
Source: Severance
“Leisure, the problem with the modern condition was the dearth of leisure. And finally, it took a force of nature to interrupt our routines. We just wanted to hit the reset button. We just wanted to feel flush with time to do things of no quantifiable value, our hopeful side pursuits like writing or drawing or something, something other than what we did for money. Like learn to be a better photographer. And even if we didn't get around to it on that day, our free day, maybe it was enough just to feel the possibility that we could if we wanted to, which is another way of saying that we wanted to feel young, though many of us were that if nothing else.”
Source: Severance
“Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.”
“Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.”
Source: Venice observed
“Leisure with dignity.”
“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”
“Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.”
“Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura”
“Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.”
“Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.”
“Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.”
“Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.”
“Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.”
“Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.”
“Leith, by that Water which is named by thee,
To thee a thousand Favours granted be;
Thy bosom is a safe and happy Port,
To which a thousand veshells do resort;
Thou art a Pilot-Town, thy ships are such
As are ambitious to outsail the Dutch.
The utmost parts of Earth thy Sails descry.”
Source: Encomia Urbium
“Leitura, para mim, sempre foi sinônimo de liberdade.”
“Lekarz zawsze uważa, że wie lepiej niż pacjent, a mężczyzna zawsze uważa, że wie lepiej niż kobieta.”
Source: The Mad Women's Ball
“Lekarze biorą udział w ogromnej liczbie szkoleń, gdzie tak naprawdę kształci się ich na zasadzie: jaki lek i kiedy używać. Tylko KTO prowadzi te szkolenia, kto je finansuje i kto tak naprawdę za tym stoi?”
Source: Ukryte Terapie: Czego ci lekarz nie powie - część 1
“Leksi stopped into front of the house and helped her down from the horse. Her legs was shaky and sore from the long hours in the saddle, and she had to hold on to him for a few moments until she was steady, I could carry you over the threshold if you like; Leksi offered, teasing.”
Source: The King's Obsession
“Lela wußte von alledem nichts. Sie hatte nur Augen für Fritz, der sich jetzt zur Seite wandte, wo eine junge, blonde Frau am Flügel saß und zu ihm aufschaute. Als Lela dieses neue Gesicht sah, erstarrte etwas in ihr. Unwillkürlich rückte sie auf ihrem Stuhl etwas vor, um näher hinsehen zu können. Was war das? Diese Frau hatte Fritzens Gesicht – nur schöner, weicher, liebreizender, und jetzt lächelte sie ihm aufmunternd zu, und er lächelte mit einem kurzen Nicken des Kopfes zurück. Die beiden verstanden sich, und nun wußte Lela auf einmal, warum Fritz keine Angst hatte. Natürlich – sie war da, und wenn sie da war, war alles in Ordnung.”
Source: The Child Manuela
“lelaki baik akan memberimu cinta yang baik
membawamu pada sesuatu yang baik
dan menjadikan dirimu lebih baik”
“Lelaki yang tengah menyetubuhi si gadis segera mencabut kemaluannya, meninggalkan bunyi "splosh" yang menjijikan, dan berlari dengan wajah sepucat roti busuk, diikuti ketiga temannya.”
Source: Beauty Is a Wound
“Lelia gave a dharma talk about letting go of self-definition: I can't do this because of what happened to me in my childhood; I can't do that because I am very shy; I could never go there because I'm afraid of clowns or mushrooms or polar bears. The group gave a gentle, collective laugh of self-recognition. Teresa found the talk helpful, as she had been having an extended interior dialogue during meditation about how septuagenarians from Torrance were fundamentally unsuited for Buddhism.”
Source: Commonwealth
“Lelike dinge het al gebeur in die naam van goeie teologie.”
Source: Confessions oor kerkwees
“Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]”
Source: Death Under the Venice Moon
“Lemat's agent says to him: y duty to you, first and foremost, is make sure you have a career, a prosperous one. I know authors always want to pander to their more artistic leanings, but this is a business after all. You have to do something to pay the bills so you can keep on writing. If you wanted to be an author just for the sake of expressing your thoughts, you could have done that by staying self-published, am I correct? but that's not what you wanted. That's not why you penned Killing Jesus. You wanted to get out there and swim in a bigger pond, didn't you? Well, here you are. Welcome to the blooming ocean.”