L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
“Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.”
“Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice”
Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986
“Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”
Source: Thoughts
“Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.”
“Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.”
“Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.”
Source: Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield
“Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.”
“Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.”
Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object
“Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.”
“Let valour end my life!”
“Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]”
“Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.”
“Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.”
“Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.”
“Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.”
Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)
“Let weakness learn meekness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
'T is haste
Makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“Let Wednesday put a rainbow into your life.”
“Let what comes come, let what goes go.”
“Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.”
“Let what is Soulfully shared this Christmas, remind you of all you have the power to achieve.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas
“Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.”
Source: Killosophy
“Let what you give come through you rather than from you. There is no lack this way. Be truly unconditional in what you give so that there can be no fear or loss. ... If you experience conflict, lack, or struggle today, let go of expectations, demands, and aiming to get something. Give yourself unconditionally . The Unconditioned Self is never diminished, and you cannot lose.”
“Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.”
Source: All That Is Unspoken
“Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.”
“Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.”
“Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me.”
Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk
“Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.”
“Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.”
“Let whoever can win glory before death.”
Source: Beowulf
“Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?”
Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes
“Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.”
Source: I, Michelangelo
“Let whoever think whatever. Just keep getting better every day. Bohdi Sanders”
“Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of northand it's autumn I've chosen as this year's friend.”
“Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.”
“Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.”
“Let winter be like winter, and summer be like summer! A winter that doesn't act like winter, a summer that doesn't act like summer, is fake, just like a person who acts differently than his own character!”
“Let winter come. Let the snow fall and consume Bath in a shroud of silence. Let everything feel as bound and stifled as my heart.”
Source: Islands of Mercy
“Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!”
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 woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.”
“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.”
“Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.”
Source: Discourse on Woman
“Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.”
“Let women be provided with living strength of their own.”