L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!”
Source: The fall
“Let’s only care about the place where we are.
There’s beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.
If there’s someone beyond the curve in the road,
Let them worry about what’s past the curve in the road,
That’s what the road is to them.”
Source: Selected Poems (By Fernando Pessoa)
“Let's play astronauts today”
Source: Astronaut Sisters
“Let's Play Cat & Mouse
It was a beautiful day as he walked the streets,
filled with flowers of summer and the green of the trees.
The sun just rising, the freshness in the air.
In the distance, something rolled across the road,
pushed and played with by a fluffy, tiger like cat.
It rolled, and was poked and pushed to the edge …
Stop that, Stop that, Stop that now …
it’s tiny little legs on the floor as it stretched as tall as it could,
arms in front, as it looked up at fluffy …
No, No, No
You can’t catch me …
Shocked and amazed was fluffy …
As his morning breakfast, scurried and hurried along the side of the road …
Goodbye, Good Day, have a wonderful Day …
As they continued their day …
No more time for Let’s play cat and mouse.
by Natasha Parker
Copyright © 2014 by Luisa Natasha Parker”
Source: Natasha a Journey to Freedom, Love and Happiness
“Let's play double or nothing... you beat me... fair... now let's play again, let's see was that your lucky day or not!?”
Source: 4 Hours
“Let's play Russian roulette. If you win, I give you a Colombian necktie.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“Let's pray for grace to live heavenly on earth.”
“Let’s pray…For the Faithful Who Feel Forgotten. They are doing the best they can and it just seems like they can’t catch a break.
Dear Heavenly Father,
We lift up those who are walking in integrity, sowing in tears, and standing in faith—even when the harvest feels delayed. You see their quiet sacrifices, their unseen obedience, and their persistent hope. Remind them today that You are not unjust to forget their labor of love. Let them feel Your nearness when the silence is loud.
When they can’t trace Your hand, help them trust Your heart.
When doors seem shut, whisper that favor is forming behind the scenes.
We declare that their “almost” season is turning into “already.”
You are the God who rewards openly what was done faithfully in secret.
Let breakthrough interrupt their waiting. Let joy invade their weariness.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Scripture: Hebrews 6:10 (NKJV)
“For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name…”
This verse is a divine receipt—proof that heaven has recorded every act of faithfulness.
Affirmation: I Am Seen, I Am Sown, I Am Rising
“I am not overlooked. I am not forgotten. I am a seed in God’s soil, and my harvest is inevitable. What I’ve done in faith will not return void. I trust God’s timing even when I don’t understand His methods. Favor is finding me.”
Declaration: The Delay Is Not Denial—It’s Divine Setup
“I declare that every ‘no’ was a setup for a better ‘yes.’
Every closed door was divine redirection.
I am not stuck—I am stationed.
God is working behind the scenes, and my name is being mentioned in rooms I haven’t entered yet.
I will not faint. I will not fold.
I will flourish in due season, and it’s closer than I think.”
“Let's pray with me for the freedom of the Muslims of Kashmir and Palestine and peace, security, and brotherhood of Pakistan and the Muslim world. We Muslims should show the world that we are Peace, not Violence.”
“Let's pretend for a moment that I find you attractive. Let's pretend that your very virtue is sorely threatened at this very moment."
"Unlikely," she scoffed.
His warm gaze dropped down to the hand that rested against his warm, bare skin. Then he looked up at her, his eyes showing an emotion she did not recognize. "I want you," he said, then swallowed hard. "And every time you are near me, your scent, your voice, seeps into my soul."
"Oh my," she muttered with a giggle. "You're good at this. You almost sound as if you believe it yourself."
"I do."
Sighing, she supposed the only thing worse than being pursued by a sinfully attractive, manipulative rake, was having one for a friend. "Stop this, Rothbury. It's not funny."
Feeling flushed, she looked down at her hand with a start, realizing she was still touching his chest. She retracted it quickly, then made a great show of studying the tip of her index finger, where a tiny dot of blood had beaded. A thorn had jabbed her earlier during her perilous climb. She hoped it would draw his attention and distract him.
But it only made it worse. He covered her hand with his own in a movement that could only be called a caress.
She swallowed. "Give me back my hand, you depraved hound."
"Mine." Slowly, he drew her toward his mouth, lips parting slightly.
Good Lord. Was he going to put her finger in his mouth? All her breath seemed to sink down to her knees, if such a ludicrous thing was possible. This had to stop. She thought to shove him away, only her muscles refused to respond.
"Now, what would you do?" He leaned down, his lips parting, giving her a tiny glimpse of his tongue.”
Source: To Wed a Wicked Earl
“Let’s pretend that you trust me and that I forgive you. Let’s stay in this room and confess all of our sins and only leave when we’re ready to be ourselves out in the world. Let’s make love until our bodies ache so we don’t feel our hearts breaking. Let’s pretend.”
Source: Meet Me in the Ether
“Let’s prioritise here. At the risk of stating the obvious, this isn’t going to be easy. We need to find Norma as fast as we can, avoid the powerful demon that wants me as his slave, and then get the fuck out of Hell. I’m sure we’ll encounter some heinous, unthinkable, soul-scarring shit along the way, but hopefully we make it out alive.”
Source: The Scarlet Gospels
“Let’s pursue the visage of imagination”
“Let's put heterogeneity over homogeneity. We need to design materials that can restore or rewild biodiversity on the planet. When ecosystems are more diverse, they are better able to perform essential ecosystem services like carbon sequestration.”
Source: Neri Oxman: Material Ecology
“Let's put our money where our mouth is; let's invest in the future by investing in the education of our youth and the re-education of those who need it and aren't so young anymore. It's not charity; it's an investment in the mental, intellectual, and social infrastructure of our country and our planet. Charity is something you give to corporations when they commit crimes of fraud and plunge the world into economic turmoil.”
Source: Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
“Let’s put the principles of the kingdom of God has our priority”
“Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.”
“Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods.”
“Let's raise our children together: let them ride the same school buses, learn the same history, swing in the same playgrounds, pedal their bikes down the same streets, share their same city.
Then we shall see face to face. Halleluiah.”
Source: How to Love a Country
“Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!”
“Let's recognize that no one is capable of enslaving or murdering billions of people. No one, at least not anyone alive today, perhaps in the past, with more primitive ways in more primitive times, but life for most of us has passed a line, where almost everyone within those billions has had access to a chance of living a worthy existance.
If it is not possible to play out a strategy to the extreme, then it is a flawed long-term strategy. There's only one way forward which promotes good health and an explosion of advancements.
With reflection of where we've been and what it is we expect from near and distant futures.”
“Let's recognize that wolves which are often hungry for chickens, will probably eat the chickens if allowed to carry the keys to the hen's house.
For similar reasons the senile and the clumsy should probably not be allowed to walk freely around sensitive equipment. The protector of dangerous means such as nuclear weapons or other powerful decisions which may affect thousands, millions or billions of lives through a simple order or press of a button ought therefor be screened regularly, very thouroughly through a strict protocol regarding mental, physical, social and spiritual health/status. On top of this we are not fully aware of all the currently unknown dangers such as external manipulation of our own biology [as already witnessed in small scale with certain parasitic venoms in insects], the universe is colossal and there is almost certainly a few exotic, unseen and unexpected threats.
Likewise, human psychology can in some ways be easy to predict, opportunity to soften otherwise perpetuated tragedies caused by the mismatch between individuals with certain characteristics and certain responsibilities.
Let's also recognize that even if each of us were shipped with previously necessary primal flaws [which coincidentaly, may be highlighted as sins] also includes a very real ability to manipulate our biology and circumstances through various forms of voluntary discipline or exposure.
Furthermore, while it is more comfortable to rely on our strengths perhaps we should also make an effort to explore our weakneses. Let's not forget that babies are all bundles of confusions, struggling to find their ways [and if someone has lost their love for babies they should be executed on the spot, or somewhere nearby]”
“Let's redefine billionaire from someone who accumulates a billion dollars to someone who helps a billion people.”
“Let's refuse to have a defeated mentality of “permanent failure” because we didn’t achieve the award-winning results we were after in the first round. Technical knockouts (TKOs) still require determination and grit.”
Source: Priority One: While You Are Busy Taking Care of Everyone Else, Who Is Taking Care of You?
“Let's remember that every bit of progress we have made in our own lives, as women, toward living out loud, in our power, and in the light, has been made possible not only by our own hard work and perseverance, but on the backs of the pioneering women before us, who literally put their lives on the line for us to be able to do so.”
Source: The Passionate Life : Creating Vitality & Joy at Any Age
“Let's remember that Jesus didn't leave Thomas to suffer without the blessing of faith and confidence; he gave him the evidence he required. That is typical of Jesus's approach to doubt; he responded to honest doubters in the way he knew best, the way that would help them to move from doubt to knowledge.”
Source: The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus
“Let’s remind ourselves that to be compassionate and forgiving doesn’t mean we are endorsing dysfunctional behaviour. On the contrary, it’s essential the harm that was inflicted upon us is properly validated and grieved. Forgiveness isn’t an intellectual concept or an airy-fairy idea. It’s a painstaking process. To be compassionate and to forgive mean we are gradually letting go of poisonous, toxic feelings that are trapped in our minds and bodies.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“Let's renounce our weapons and become a beacon of hope and hatelessness in the vastness of our universe. If any extraterrestrial race is observing us, let them know that the little blue dot may be tiny in size, but it holds unimaginable potential for greatness and glory. As the saying goes, big things come in small packages. Let them know, the tiny blue dot in a corner of the Milky Way, doesn't just hold intelligent life, it holds the life that knows the value of life.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“Let’s return to the legend of the ship of Theseus … Plank by plank, every piece of that ship was eventually replaced as it wore out, until no original timber remained. Was it still the ship of Theseus, or had it become something entirely new?”
Source: The Council of Gods
“Let’s return to the main argument. People are hurting as hell. It matters. We should do something to make them happier, if we can.”
Source: The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“Let's ride hard towards your goal.”
“Let's roll out, Batman."
"I'm Batman and you're Robin?"
"Don't make me laugh. I'm Spider-Man."
"Then we live in different universes. I'm DC and you're Marvel."
Duncan rolled his eyes. "Can't we all get along? And since when are there different universes?”
Source: Two to Tango
“Let's run away."
"To where?"
"Alaska."
"What's in Alaska?"
"No clue," I whispered. "Find out with me.”
Source: Conspiracy Boy
“let’s run free under starlight”
“let's run free under starlight… restless for our dreams and full of wild defiance”
“let's run free under starlight…
we'll leave doubt behind us where it came from,
and we'll believe. so. much. that we
just can't be told different… restless for
our dreams and full of wild defiance”
“Let's Run in the circle, opposite to each other. Until we are thrown into the sky by the storm swirling in between us. I'll hold your hands and I'll hug you, let me be your wings. Let's fall on that clouds and let's dance on the rainbow. Let's bore a hole in that sky until we fall back to the sea with the rain. And Let's swim back to the shore, to play the game of circle again.”
“Let's run the experiment.”
“Let’s run, Ty. Come with me. We’ll bury ourselves and start over. With nothing to do but lie on a beach all day and drink and fuck.”
Ty couldn’t answer, still torn between shock and anger. “Yeah,” he finally sneered. “Drink and fuck and run from the NIA.”
“You bloody stubborn bastard!” Liam shouted, his façade finally cracking. “I’m telling you right here, I love you! We have a chance to cut and run, and I want you to come with me!”
Source: Touch & Geaux
“Let’s sail boldly into the storms of annihilation, breathing light into dark by sheer determination.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Let’s salute our enemies. That makes at least one happy. (Saluons nos ennemis. - Ca fait au moins un heureux.)”
“Let's say a dozen hearts, perhaps 500 smiles, a few thousand faces, voices. Out of the whole, not
so easy to fit the whole world in one.
Thankfully, we're not alone in this X.”
“Let's say a person says:
"I am the light. It's my desire to be a light unto the world: To shine a light wherever I go. To be the light among people who know me." - and so forth.
But if we decide that "I am the light" but we find ourselves in a place where there is nothing but the light...
Let's say that we're a candle in the Sun,
Well we're there all right, along with the 50 billion cajillion other candles, and we can know that we are the light, but we can't experience ourselves being the light.
And if it's our hearts desire to experience ourselves,
not just to know conceptually, but to experience ourselves, experientially -
if that's our heart's desire, we're going to actually call forth, or at least search around to see if anywhere in the contextual field, there is this thing called the darkness.
And if we find the darkness we will move toward it or even co-create it with those around us, who have the same desire to be the light, in order that we may experience ourselves as the light amidst the darkness.”
“Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.”
Source: Memoir in Two Voices
“Let’s say I knew a secret. And this were meant to make me talk. Then perhaps I’d still have a little piece of mind. But meaningless torture when torture itself is the purpose, what is there but despair?”
Source: Tokyo Ghoul
“Let's say I will rip your life apart. Me and my banker friends."
How can he explain that to him? The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from border fortresses, not even from Whitehall. The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift west and are burned up in the sun. Not from the castle walls, but from counting houses, not be the call of the bugle, but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the mechanism of the gun but by the scrape of the pen on the page of the promissory note that pays for the gun and the gunsmith and the powder and shot.”
Source: Wolf Hall
“Let's say life is too short,
Indeed. But It's a Big deal,
Finally so we must say clear
Enough what We really feel.”
Source: ACross Tic
“Let's say my name is Jonah and he is Louis.
Even here, in this story, I can't make myself tell you our real names.”
Source: Dwellers
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years.
Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks 'That's enough of that. It's time to intervene,' and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don't lets appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person.
Why am I glad this is the case? To get to the point of the wrongness of Christianity, because I think the teachings of Christianity are immoral. The central one is the most immoral of all, and that is the one of vicarious redemption. You can throw your sins onto somebody else, vulgarly known as scapegoating. In fact, originating as scapegoating in the same area, the same desert. I can pay your debt if I love you. I can serve your term in prison if I love you very much. I can volunteer to do that. I can't take your sins away, because I can't abolish your responsibility, and I shouldn't offer to do so. Your responsibility has to stay with you. There's no vicarious redemption. There very probably, in fact, is no redemption at all. It's just a part of wish-thinking, and I don't think wish-thinking is good for people either.
It even manages to pollute the central question, the word I just employed, the most important word of all: the word love, by making love compulsory, by saying you MUST love. You must love your neighbour as yourself, something you can't actually do. You'll always fall short, so you can always be found guilty. By saying you must love someone who you also must fear. That's to say a supreme being, an eternal father, someone of whom you must be afraid, but you must love him, too. If you fail in this duty, you're again a wretched sinner. This is not mentally or morally or intellectually healthy.
And that brings me to the final objection - I'll condense it, Dr. Orlafsky - which is, this is a totalitarian system. If there was a God who could do these things and demand these things of us, and he was eternal and unchanging, we'd be living under a dictatorship from which there is no appeal, and one that can never change and one that knows our thoughts and can convict us of thought crime, and condemn us to eternal punishment for actions that we are condemned in advance to be taking. All this in the round, and I could say more, it's an excellent thing that we have absolutely no reason to believe any of it to be true.”
“Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you’re the one who shot him.
He had been a big, twitchy guy with veiny skin stretched over swollen biceps, a tattoo of a swastika on his tongue. Teeth filed into razor-sharp fangs-you know the type. And you’re chopping off his head because, even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face.
On the follow-through of the last swing, though, the handle of the ax snaps in a spray of splinters. You now have a broken ax. So, after a long night of looking for a place to dump the man and his head, you take a trip into town with your ax. You go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the broken handle as barbecue sauce. You walk out with a brand-new handle for your ax.
The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your garage until the spring when, on one rainy morning, you find in your kitchen a creature that appears to be a foot-long slug with a bulging egg sac on its tail. Its jaws bite one of your forks in half with what seems like very little effort. You grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however, the ax strikes a metal leg of the overturned kitchen table and chips out a notch right in the middle of the blade.
Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store. They sell you a brand-new head for your ax. As soon as you get home, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded earlier. He’s also got a new head, stitched on with what looks like plastic weed-trimmer line, and it’s wearing that unique expression of “you’re the man who killed me last winter” resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.
You brandish your ax. The guy takes a long look at the weapon with his squishy, rotting eyes and in a gargly voice he screams, “That’s the same ax that beheaded me!”
IS HE RIGHT?”
Source: John Dies at the End