L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let us be the waves of infinite love to be infinite in this finite ocean of life.”
“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.”
“Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.”
“Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.”
“Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.”
“Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.”
Source: Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories
“Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.”
“Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.”
“Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.”
“Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.”
“Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.”
Source: Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World
“Let us be wild and weird with love for humanity.”
“Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.”
“Let us bear our cross and leave it to God to determine the length and the weight.”
“Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.”
“Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.”
“Let us become philosophers, poets, and engineers again, carrying inflamed minds and burning hearts, to set the cold universe on fire.”
Source: Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux
“Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential”
“Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“Let us begin again,” the female said, her voice tight, as if she were only just controlling her emotions. “I am Zavanna and this is Brol. Are you friend or food?”
Source: The Shadow Glass
“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.”
“Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.”
“Let us begin by saying that no two symmetriads are alike and that the geometry of each is, as it were, an “invention” of the living ocean. So then, the symmetriad produces in its interior things that are often called “instant machines,” though these formations bear no resemblance to machines constructed by people — the term only refers to a certain “mechanical” purposiveness of operation.”
Source: Solaris
“Let us begin in earnest to work out our salvation, for no one will do it for us, since even He Himself, Who made us without ourselves, will not save us without ourselves.”
“Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.”
“Let us begin to understand the argument.
There is a solution to everything: Science.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of action. ... We obtain action when we multiply energy by time. ... We are challenged to find a unified theory of electric particles and radiation in which the electrostatic type of action and the quantum type of action are traced to their source.”
Source: New Pathways In Science
“Let us begin with the idea of thought. Most people think in words and images, however, that may simply be how they perceive and process thought. At a deeper level, thoughts are electromagnetic vibrations and patterns.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what has always been conceived and signified under that name—or that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it? (Posed in these terms, the question would already be caught in the assurance of a certain fore-knowledge: can “what has always been conceived and signified under that name” be considered fundamentally homogeneous, univocal, or nonconflictual?) To take other examples: what historical and strategic function should henceforth be assigned to the quotation marks, whether visible or invisible, which transform this into a “book,” or which still make the deconstruction of philosophy into a “philosophical discourse”?”
Source: Dissemination
“Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.”
“Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.”
“Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.”
“Let us beware of repentance without evidence.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”
Source: A Nietzsche Reader
“Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.”
“Let us beware, therefore, of yielding to indulgence, seeing we are assured that the curse of God lies on every man and woman cohabiting without marriage.”
“Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.”
“Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.”
Source: The Works of Horace
“Let us brace our offended solitary mindset in spite of COVID-19 as the world’s finest hour perpetual uncertainty, let us brace our hearts as the very center of our hearts is an armored supreme excellence to be victorious by an unequivocal perseverance and hope, let us brace unconditional Love, kindness and triumph to be the masters of our own chain of destiny, let us brace unity and oneness to beckon for victorious war against fear and the inherent vice of crisis at its peril.”
“Let us break the deadlock and stop doom-scrolling into the narrative of a fluctuating landscape of dispiriting thoughts...but, instead, invite the flowers of compassion to blossom in our hearts and our minds and overwhelm us with a spray of vibrant petals of well-being. ("Absence of Desire" )”
“Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy line of separation of faith: to talk together, to study together, to pray together and ultimately to sing together His Holy name.”
“Let us bring peace to the world by dreaming of peace.”
“Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.”
“Let us build a home together where we can lean into each other and speak of our dreams we once had of a humane world. Let us bring back the forgotten light in such an insane world, let us be sheltered in the arms of love and not hate. Above all, let us be humans again.”
“Let us build a SAARC satellite which we can dedicate to our neighbourhood, as a gift from India.”
“Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.”
“Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.”