L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.”
“Let us build our own political machine. You've been in the Democratic Party, you got nothing. We were Republicans at one time, at least, we had a fake declaration of emancipation. No, if you and I unite with that man, and that man is Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger-Messiah, with the help of Allah he said, I will get you what you want and I know what you want for I am your brother.”
“Let us burn.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“Let us burn bright as the gentle epitome of ahava. Let us live life as a walking and talking menorah.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.”
“Let us buy atleast one product of Khadi fabric and help light a lamp of Diwali in the homes of the poor.”
“Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”
Source: The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823
“Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?”
Source: The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
“Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!”
Source: The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law
“Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.”
“Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.”
“Let us catch those vile fiends, however since we cannot go forward, we will pursue them in reverse.”
Source: The Georgia Express: A Tale of the Civil War
“Let us celebrate the occasion of Indian Constitution Day by being good citizens of India who respect and abide by the constitution of our country.”
“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”
“Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.”
Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden
“Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games”
“Let us change a letter
from the word ‘EVIL’
Make it 'Ivil'
as long as 'Israel' remains so…
Let us protect the letter ‘P’
for Prayers..
for PALESTINE...
for Peace..”
“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”
“Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.”
“Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.”
“Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.”
“Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.”
“Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative forces of private entrepreneurship with the needs of the disadvantaged and the requirements of future generations.”
Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General
“Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.”
“Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a certain place (Mk. 7:6), 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts is far from Me.'”
“Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.”
“Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.”
“Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, there lies the mercy of God.”
“Let us come into this holy place cleansed, purified. That's how we honor God. That's how we prove our belief in the arrival of the divine in the midst of our lives. God will help the one who seeks to make those efforts. Finally he says, „Put on (or clothe) yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't think of that as some other unapproachable metaphor. It means think like Him. Live like Him. Not as a vagrant, but as a compassionate person, a forgiving person. Even if you're the only one in the crowd. Don't let the poison of negativity get contagious on you. Recognize it for what it is. Put on Christ, nothing less. Each one of us is called to that. Because in putting on that understanding of life, you find your true Self, your true destiny, your true joy. (p. 52)”
Source: Doorway to Spiritual Awakening: Becoming Partakers of the Divine
“Let us come together and think of ways India does not have to import but we export to the world.”
“Let us come together before we're annihilated.”
“Let us concentrate on the question of why the state (meaning, here, the civil authorities) would let the police claim the means of violence as their own. Police brutality does not just happen; it is allowed to happen. It is tolerated by the police themselves, those on the street and those in command. It is tolerated by prosecutors, who seldom bring charges against violent cops, and by juries, who rarely convict. It is tolerated by the civil authorities, the mayors, and the city councils, who do not use their influence to challenge police abuses. But why? The answer is simple: police brutality is tolerated because it is what people with power want.”
Source: Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
“Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.”
“Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.”
Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Let us confess it: evil strides the world.”
“Let us consider a sad illumination. The Manhattan office worker moves througha clutter of factory-made, anonymous furniture to a plastic, impersonal kitchen, tobreakfast on canned, packaged anonymous food-fuel; dresses hirself in theanonymous-city-dweller costume, travels through dark tunnels of sooty metal andgray concrete to a dark metal room, foul with polluted air. All day s/he deals withsymbols that have no relevance to hir divine possibilities. This person issurrounded by the dreary, impersonal, assembly-line, mass-produced, anonymousenvironment of an automated robot, which perfectly mirrors hir “turned off’awareness.
When this person “turns on,” s/he sees at once the horror of hir surroundings. Ifs/he “tunes in,” s/he begins to change hir movements and hir surroundings sothat they become more in harmony with hir internal beauty. If everyone inManhattan were to “turn on” and “tune in,” grass would grow on First Avenueand tieless, shoeless divinities would dance or roller-skate down the carlessstreets. Ecological consciousness would emerge within 25 years. Fish would swimin a clear-blue Hudson.”
Source: Your Brain Is God
“Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.”
“Let us consider Elfland as a great national park, a vast and beautiful place where a person goes by himself, on foot, to get in touch with reality in a special, private, profound fashion. But what happens when it is considered merely as a place to "get away to"?
Well, you know what has happened to Yosemite. Everybody comes, not with an ax and a box of matches, but in a trailer with a motorbike on the back and a motorboat on top and a butane stove, five aluminum folding chairs, and a transistor radio on the inside. They arrive totally encapsulated in a secondhand reality. And then they move on to Yellowstone, and it's just the same there, all trailers and transistors. They go from park to park, but they never really go anywhere; except when one of them who thinks that even the wildlife isn't real gets chewed up by a genuine, firsthand bear.
The same sort of thing seems to be happening to Elfland, lately.”
Source: From Elfland to Poughkeepsie
“Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.”
Source: Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books
“Let us consider letters - how they come at breakfast, and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green stamps, immortalized by the postmark - for to see one's own envelope on another's table is to realize how soon deeds sever and become alien. Then at last the power of the mind to quit the body is manifest, and perhaps we fear or hate or wish annihilated this phantom of ourselves, lying on the table. Still, there are letters that merely say how dinner's at seven; others ordering coal; making appointments. The hand in them is scarcely perceptible, let alone the voice or the scowl. Ah, but when the post knocks and the letter comes always the miracle seems repeated - speech attempted. Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.”
Source: Jacob's Room
“Let us consider our life as a road we have to cross; fear lies on one side of the road, and our dreams lie on the opposite side. Just before crossing, let us look above and see through the sun rays; we will find the signs that will lead us into the right way.”
“Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.”
Source: The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow
“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles”
Source: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories
“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”
Source: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories
“Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.”
“Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.”