L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.”
“Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.”
“Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.”
“Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.”
“Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.”
“Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.”
“Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.”
Source: Works
“Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”
“Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.”
“Let me be frank even though I'm Vincent and prefer to be called V.”
Source: Catapult Soul
“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Let me be kind, let me be compassionate, let me be joyful, and let me sing a song of love.”
“Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.”
Source: Woody Sez
“Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.”
Source: Rebekah
“Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!”
“Let me be me and I will love you for you, as we discover the I am; that we can only be together.”
“Let me be me, or let me be.”
“Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.”
“Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.”
“Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got”
“Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.”
“Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.”
Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.”
Source: Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala
“Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.”
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
“Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!”
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.”
“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”
Source: THE THURBER CARNIVAL
“Let me be the first to say that I've also been that toxic person. Calling myself out on my own toxicity is what aids me in spotting it in others. Healing my toxicity is what helped me understand myself. Now, I invite and embrace peace & good vibes only.”
“Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth.”
Source: Alone
“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.”
“Let me be the one To do what is done.”
Source: The Notebooks of Robert Frost
“Let me be the only one to keep you from the cold
Now the floor of hell is laid, the stars are bright as gold
They light for you, they shine for you
They burn for all to see
Come into these arms again and set your spirit free”
“Let me be the partner of your last journey on Earth by exchanging your intelligence through wisdom. I would compel your soul, and not your physical mind or the body, to follow the process of conquering thy death and enter Heaven.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.”
“Let me be the type man who plants a field of flowers so you can be the type of woman who picks them.”
Source: The Counting-Downers
“Let me be the way I'm born to be, writing love letters to the sea, in the quiet weaving of memories, making flowers of all that remains.
Let me be the way I'm born to be, drunken with ecstasy, unfurled freshly, for had I not known what agony is, I would have stayed furled as a bud in deep.
Let me be the way I'm born to be, the lover of serenity, for had I not left the crowds of people, I would have never known what solitude truly is.
Let me be the way I'm born to be, the solitary soul, aware, awake, and playful with life.”
“Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.”
Source: Rules For Old Men Waiting
“Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.”
“Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.”
“Let me be very clear. A prostitute in a brothel deserves the exact same justice as a virgin living in her parents' house with her nannies. The amount of shelter a woman receives in life is not indicative of the justice she is owed in death. The worth of one's passing is not framed and bought by the shelter given her in life. We are all born differently and into different circumstances. Any one of us could have become a prostitute if only born differently. I refuse to lean to the notion that any woman's untimely death may be put on trial in accordance to her living.”
“Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.”
“Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.”
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
“Let me be your anchor. I'll never let you be lost again.”
Source: Feverborn
“Let me be your big brother, Harry had told Catherine at their last meeting in Hampshire, making it clear that he wanted to attempt the kind of familial relationship they had never been capable of before. With no small amount of unease. Catherine reflected that she was about to test his claim far sooner than either of them could have expected. And they were still practically strangers.
But Harry had altered greatly during the short time of his marriage to Poppy. He was far kinder and warmer now, and certainly willing to think of Catherine as something more than an inconvenient half sister who didn't belong anywhere.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Let me be your shield, let me be your wall. I'll always be there, even when you fall!”
“Let me be your villain”
Source: A Lady's Code of Misconduct