L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes.”
“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”
“Less than twenty-four hours ago, I had a family and a home and a dreamworld I thought was as close to heaven as you could get without dying.
I have none of that now.
My brother is dead. My parents threw me out of the house—again—with barely enough to fill a small suitcase. And my dreamworld? I was right when I figured that, if God ever did exist, he turned his back on humanity centuries ago.”
Source: Sing Sweet Nightingale
“Less than two percent of all Americans are now farmers. Corporations with all the warmth of equity investors now control the breadbasket of America. Anyone care to speculate how corporate control of the world’s food banks will work out for ordinary people who must eat to survive.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Less than two weeks ago, my husband was perfectly normal ... and now he has a brain tumor? How can this be our life?”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“Less thinking, more living.”
Source: From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
“Less to burn in the event a rogue gender-fluid camper decides to go on a flaming crusade against the binary, I guess”
Source: The Honeys
“Less trade is the last thing most countries need if they are to improve their economies and the standard of living of workers of a lower socio-economic status. Reducing immigration is one sure way to stymie economic growth.
And then there are the policies that this populist mantra is designed to mask: cuts to essential services like health and education to fund tax cuts for higher income workers and corporations. It's like a pickpocket who arranges a distraction while happily fleecing his victims. (p.22)”
Source: On Charlatans
“Less understanding of your power as a citizen makes you a cheerleader
Protect yourself from becoming a cheerleader, it makes you a responsible citizen”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.”
“Less want from. More want for.”
Source: Feast
“Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!”
Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope. First series
“Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.”
“Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.”
“Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.”
“Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you.”
“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
“Lesser the needs, better the life.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Lesser the needs, greater the peace.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Lesser the walls greater the expansion.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
“Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.”
“Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution — and it should be. Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.”
Source: Art and Fear
“Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.”
“Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.”
Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.”
“Lesson in life, kids. Life isn't like the movies, but you can sure as hell act like it is”
Source: The Bad Boy Stole My Bra
“Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar.”
Source: Born to Run
“Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.”
“Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.”
“Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.”
“Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.”
Source: Bossypants
“Lesson: Never underestimate a woman. Or a chef.”
Source: Triple threat
“Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.”
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“Lesson Number One in controlling a man: find his weakness. Every man had one.”
Source: The Last Rising
“Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.”
“Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.”
Source: A Man In A Kilt
“Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.”
“Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.”
“Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.”
Source: Eve Arnold: in retrospect
“Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish”
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“Lesson one, don't shit on your friends when you have a bad day.'
'Right.'
'Lesson two. Your true friends won't mind when you do, so long as you own up to it and apologise. Usually in the form of buying them a beer.'
Another laugh, softer this time. 'I'll buy you a beer, then.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.”
Source: Katya's World
“Lesson one, for anyone interested: stalking never was, is, or will be romantic. Ever.”
Source: Viperous
“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”
Source: Lost in a Good Book
“Lessons are good but there's a lot inside of us that can be pulled out.”
“Lessons are not given, they are taken.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Lessons come in all shapes and sizes, sometimes as losses, sometimes as mistakes,
sometimes as painful relationships. The goal of the teacher is not to make you fail.
It is to make you grow into the stronger and wiser, YOU.”
“Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep.
...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.”
“Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.”