L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.”
“Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt.”
“Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild — I couldn't think of anything that would horrify my parents more. Therefore, the proposition became exponentially more enticing.”
Source: Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances
“Lessons in patience
were so sweetly taught her that she could not fail to learn them, charity for all, the lovely spirit that can forgive and truly forget unkindness, the loyalty to duty that makes the hardest easy, and the sincere faith that fears nothing, but trusts undoubtingly.”
Source: Little Women
“Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?”
“Lessons learned aren't mistakes.”
“Lessons learned in the home, last the longest.”
“Lessons learned today, I am my greatest champion. Nobody will respect me unless I stand up for myself. Sounds so simple, yet been so hard to put into effect until now, with my back up against the wall, Now I see what I must do ..it's a case of self preservation.”
“Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.”
“Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.”
“Lessons of the Balance
1. The relentless pursuit of pleasure (and avoidance of pain) leads to pain.
2. Recovery begins with abstinence.
3. Abstinence resets the brain’s reward pathway and with it our capacity to
take joy in simpler pleasures.
4. Self-binding creates literal and metacognitive space between desire and
consumption, a modern necessity in our dopamine-overloaded world.
5. Medications can restore homeostasis, but consider what we lose by
medicating away our pain.
6. Pressing on the pain side resets our balance to the side of pleasure.
7. Beware of getting addicted to pain.
8. Radical honesty promotes awareness, enhances intimacy, and fosters a
plenty mindset.
9. Prosocial shame affirms that we belong to the human tribe.
10. Instead of running away from the world, we can find escape by immersing ourselves in it.”
Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.”
“Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks”
“Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.”
“Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.”
“Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.”
Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul
“Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.”
“Lest anyone dispute that the Bible is not the inspired Word of God but rather the direct and dictated Word of God, let us consider the uniqueness of the 66 books of the Bible. Why is it that we can tell that a certain book of the Bible was written by one author rather than another? Why do the different books of the Bible use different languages (e.g., Greek, Hebrew) and different vocabularies? Why are the styles of books like Proverbs and Chronicles so different from one another? It is because people were vessels for the inspiration of God, but they were not empty vessels; God did not bypass their humanity. The way in which these people recorded their encounters with God bears the indelible stamp of their place in time, their culture, and their individual personalities.”
Source: Deliver Us From Evolution?: A Christian Biologist's In-Depth Look at the Evidence Reveals a Surprising Harmony Between Science and God
“Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.”
“Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”
Source: Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968
“Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.”
“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”
“Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.”
Source: Poems
“Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.”
“Lest soviel ihr könnt! Lest Straßenschilder und Speisekarten, lest die Anschläge im Bürgermeisteramt, lest von mir aus Schundliteratur - aber lest! Lest! Sonst seid ihr verloren!”
Source: Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
“Lest the discipline should live up to its lamentable reputation as being little more than speculation, mellifluous ideals, and the disconsolate profligacy of ink, effort, and time, the act of philosophizing must lead somewhere.”
Source: The Definitive Answer to the Meaning of Life
“Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.”
Source: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
“Lest us piggyback off the inspiration of every lucky instant if we wish to light up the dim specks of our days and allay the thunderous crashing of destiny.( "Just for a moment")”
“Lest we despair, God has given us "a future and a hope" (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT) and to be specific, it includes the restoration of every precious day of our lives. Heaven is not a memory wipe. it is the time and capacity to truly relish the story of our lives, to see the hand of God in it all (how many times angels rescued you), to be vindicated, and even rewarded.”
Source: Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad
“Lest we forget, a morgue is also a community center.”
Source: Time Is a Mother
“Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat.”
“Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane”
“Lest we lay too heavy a criticism against any government administration--local, state, or federal--we are reminded that American government is representational. Political leaders reflect the people who elect them (as well as those who fail in this civic responsibility) as a mirror reflects those who gaze into it.”
“Lest we repeat history,
Let the stories be passed
From father to son, from mother to daughter,
For with but one generation,
History and truth are lost forever.”
Source: The Beauty of Darkness
“Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.”
Source: Studies in Physiology and Medicine
“Lestarikan lingkungan hidup dg tulus & bertanggung jawab, utk kepentingan kita sendiri. Selamat Hari Lingkungan Hidup Sedunia.”
“Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.”
“Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!' he whispered under his breath. 'You are a brat prince.”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
“Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.
David: You're serious?
Lestat: Of course
David: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a...a most impressive piece of young male flesh.
Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to..
David: You've been with a woman, haven't you?
Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you?
David: A woman you loved.
Lestat: I have always loved both men and women.
David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love.”
“Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.”
“Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.”
“Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.”
“Lester Little (1998) stwierdził, że smutek i cierpliwość jako reakcja na niesprawiedliwość były sławione jako cnoty w średniowiecznym monastycyzmie.”
“Lester never knew his father. His mother had no idea, which of her “lovers” was the culprit. It was one in a long line of customers.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Lester preferred to be homeless. It gave him a certain freedom. He no longer had to worry about paying bills, which was a huge load off his shoulders. He could easily steal when he was hungry and he had no problem sleeping wherever he laid his head.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Lestrade smiled. It was a smile of transcendent sweetness.”
“Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.”
“Let 2022 be the year that the tiger comes to visit you and scares away all the chickens that you have been keeping.
Happy New Year!”