L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
“Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!”
“Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“Let all pride be drowned in the depth of tears,
Let all pomp be crushed by the load of pain.
Let all counterfeit self become distant memory,
Let life be identified by your one chosen lane.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.”
“Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.”
Source: Bondage of the Will, The
“Let all the dreamers wake the nation.”
“Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year!”
“Let all the green leaves be mine
as long as the trees define
shades created by their limbs
for the soil made with victims
of atrocity's vileness
to redeem the fragileness”
“Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.”
“Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.”
“Let all the love and beauty of our lives bloom like a flower reflected through our smiles.”
“Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.”
Source: I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god
“Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.”
“Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song—the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that sweeps in with the tempest, shaking and waking all life with laughter, the joy that sits still with its tears on the open red lotus of pain, and the joy that throws everything it has upon the dust, and knows not a word.”
Source: Gitanjali
“Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.”
“Let all thy joys be as the month of May.”
“Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.”
Source: Argalus and Parthenia
“Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!”
Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)
“Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..!”
Source: Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally...
“Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.”
“Let all your regrets and mistakes become your sails and your rudders, and not your anchors”
“Let all your thinks be thanks.”
“Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.”
“Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.”
Source: The posthumous works of Junius: To which is prefixed, an inquiry respecting the author: also, a Sketch of the life of John Horne Tooke
“Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.”
“Let Allah will deal with the people who wronged you in this life, because too much hate will eventually consume you to”
“Let alone the border states, there was a problem in the capital itself. Many complaints were received after the draft rolls were published on 25 January 1993 in Delhi. The complaints said that the names of foreign nationals were included and genuine Indian citizens were excluded. It was decided by the commission that action would be taken against the Delhi administration for ‘lapses’ in its procedures for including the names of foreign nationals, particularly Bangladeshis, in the revised electoral rolls. The final lists were to be out by 25 March in 13 sectors where a large population of illegal immigrants was supposed to be living. The result was that in the final roll, only 17,000 could be declared as voters from one area where there were 128,000 in the draft rolls. These figures were alarming. The publication of final rolls was held up for some time. In fact, according to police sources, there were possibly around 400,000 illegal immigrants in Delhi at that time. There were speculations in the press suggesting that this was just the tip of the iceberg. It took up to November for elections to be held.”
“Let always flow into you, your memory of where you are from. Feel the awesome power that called you into being when your soul first awoke and cried out your true and only name. All other names are garments. All other lives are garments. We put them on, and sometimes they bind with stays and ties of hard cord. And other times they flow like silk around us, and we dance freely moving our souls in beautiful harmony with the flesh.”
Source: Lahana
“Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940
“Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.”
“Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940
“Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.”
Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition
“Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.”
“Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.”
“Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!”
“Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.”
“Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!”
“Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.”
“Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us.”
Source: The Captive / The Fugitive
“Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.”
“Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.”
“Let anger fuel your passion.
Let rejection fuel your determination.
Let failure fuel your ambition.”
“Let anger's fire be slow to burn.”
“Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.”
“Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation”