L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.”
“Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.”
“Let them be your friend because their love is liberating. Because they love your happiness as much as their own. Because their love is strong, but so light to hold. Love liberates.”
“Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.”
“Let them call it ruin,
the way I unravel, thread by thread,
a tapestry undone by wind and want,
by the fever of something too vast to name.”
Source: Obey the Moon: 1995–2025, A Collected Work Vol. II
“Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.”
“Let them call me a traitor and a coward. Because I, Yarpen Zigrin, coward, traitor and renegade, state that we should not kill each other. I state that we ought to live. Live in such a way that we don't, later, have to ask anyone for forgiveness.”
Source: Blood of Elves
“Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.”
“Let them chase perfection, you chase happiness and you'll have less regrets.”
“Let them come, there is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Let them come with their swords and their torches. Let them come.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Let them count you out while you focus on finding ways to thrive. Your focus should never be on what people do to pull you down, but on what you need to do to make it in life.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Let them doubt you; once they taste you, they will possess you.”
“Let them doubt you. You keep believing in yourself.”
“Let them drown me, if that's what they want. Let them. You die once. What's there to be afraid of?”
Source: Farewell to Matyora
“Let them eat accurately labelled cake.”
“Let them eat cake.”
“Let them eat me, I'll give them horrible indigestion.”
“Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.”
“Let them express their anger and hatred; listen to them and smile.”
“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
Source: Dramatic works of John Ford ...
“Let them fear her”
Source: Wicked Saints
“Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents 'talk-in' and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children...Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.”
“Let them go, Caine,” Diana pleaded.
“Why, Diana? Why do you betray me?”
“Betray you?” Diana laughed. “Betray you? I’ve been with you every day, every hour, from the start of this nightmare!”
Caine looked at her. “But you hate me, anyway.”
“No, you sick, stupid creep, I love you. I shouldn’t. I shouldn’t. You’re sick inside, Caine, sick! But I love you.”
Source: Lies
“Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
“Let them hate me provided they fear me”
“Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.”
“Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.”
“Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a solution to drug addiction.”
“Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Let them impeach and be damned.”
“Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.
Let them criticize you, but remain wise.
Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind.
Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.
They know your face, but not your mind.
They understand your words, but not your heart.
They hear your name, but not your soul.
They grasp your past, but not your future.”
“Let them judge you
They will judge you and let them judge you. You just don't have to care. Let go of what others think about you and let yourself shine.
Do your thing and keep rolling because you got this.”
“Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data”
“Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.”
Source: Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
“Let them, let them scratch where it itches, it's a real human itch to gossip, to go over someone's bones until they're picked clean. They can't live without it. And you just keep quiet, do your work, and don't taunt them--they'll stop sooner. And then it'll be someone else's turn, and you'll be with the others again. Is this the first time? The very thing they blame you for, they'll praise you for later. People…”
Source: Live and Remember
“Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.”
“Let them make their war.
Whence come night and day?
Whence will the eagle become gray?
Whence is it that night is dark?
Whence is it that the linnet is green?
The ebullition of the sea,
How is it not seen?”
“Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.”
“Let them mock, Bran thought. No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.”
“Let them not be denied a few crumbs of attention or merely a 'twinkle of happiness' if, through the insidious intrusion of reality, the unattended cannot receive a 'lease of happiness.' ("Homeless, down in the corner" )”
“Let them not cold-call our attention, besiege our feelings, and disturb our dreams, those dealers in phony compassion selling wishful thinking through merchandising sentimental poppycock. ("Like a frozen image")”
“Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.”
“Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.”
“Let them obey that knows not how to rule.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..
“Let them play! The more they play, the more resilient and socially adept they will become.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.”
“Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.”
“Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.”
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams