L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.”
“Let us not only clean our hands, we must purify our hearts.”
“Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.”
“Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.”
“Let us not overlook so great a gain.”
Source: The Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: On the Acts of the Apostles
“Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.”
“Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman.
[Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent;
Nous ne ferions rien avec grace:
Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse,
Ne saurit passer pour galant.]”
“Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.”
“Let us not ponder over biting ripostes that are thought of just seconds too late on our way home. Rather than awkwardly stumbling on the flight of steps to verbal avenge and tormenting ourselves with the wit of the staircase and its pointless ruminations or self-righteous vanity, we better transcend the shallow waters of narcissism and find harmony by resourcing ourselves in humility.
("Wit of the staircase")”
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
“Let us not question whether God is there; let us praise Him that He is there.”
Source: Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms
“Let us not reason like cowards,” said Okonkwo. “If a man comes into my hut and defecates on the floor, what do I do? Do I shut my eyes? No! I take a stick and break his head. That is what a man does. These people are daily pouring filth over us, and Okeke says we should pretend not to see.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.”
Source: The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation
“Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.”
Source: Kaffir Boy: And Related Readings
“Let us not ruminate on lost cases, creating imaginary scenarios of spite and revenge. Let us honor our valuable mental time, follow a positive road instead, and dump barren and gnawing resentments and destructive anger. ("The umbrella")”
“Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.”
“Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
“Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.”
“Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.”
“Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver.”
“Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.”
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”
“Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.”
“Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.”
Source: Selected poems
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
“Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.”
“Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.”
“Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.”
“Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and our actions, if we don’t want our conscience to be backfired on. (“Twilight of desire”)”
“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the fresh energy of new boundaries and at the same time pick the blossoms of poetry welling up along the path of our life, and enjoy the innocence of the little wonders of every day.
("A Thousand times touched." )”
“Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.”
“Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”
Source: The Common Reader
“Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”
“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.”
“Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.”
“Let us not talk about memories
Let us cherish them instead
Our restless heart might feel at ease
Treasuring the past from the dead
From the poem- Remembrance”
“Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”
“Let us not teach them, but amuse them.”
“Let us not think of the future this night. It is not yet dawn. We still have time for airy hopes.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.”
Source: The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.”
“Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.”
“Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.”
Source: Self-culture, lectures
“Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. What it is, is Eternity's passage.”
Source: Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction
“Let us not turn schools into dumps when we go out and vote on Monday.”
“Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.”
“Let us not underestimate the ingenuity of the poor people in converting what they get from the relief worker to what they want. And that’s just wasteful. They would be far better off if we just gave them the money and let them spend it.”