L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Levántense, gente de la tierra,
hasta que caigan los saqueadores.
Rujan como versos de Naskar -
fuera fascistas, libre el mundo.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Levántense, hijos de la tierra,
sin importar color o cultura,
tienen más alma que imperios simios,
más espíritu que buitres y parásitos.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Lew had never seen a dead man before. He just stood there, and looked and looked. Then he went a step closer, and looked some more. 'So that's what it's like!' he murmured inaudibly. Finally Lew reached out slowly and touched him on the face, and cringed as he met the clammy feel of it, pulled his hand back and whipped it down, as though to get something off it.
The flesh was still warm and Lew knew suddenly he had no time alibi.
He threw something over that face and that got rid of the awful feeling of being watched by something from the other world. After that Lew wasn't afraid to go near him; he just looked like a bundle of old clothes. The dead man was on his side, and Lew fiddled with the knife-hilt, trying to get it out. It was caught fast, so he let it alone after grabbing it with his fingers from a couple of different directions.
Next he went through his pockets, thinking he'd be helping to identify him.
The man was Luther Kemp, forty-two, and he lived on 79th Street. But none of that was really true any more, Lew thought, mystified; he'd left it all behind. His clothes and his home and his name and his body and the show he'd paid to see were here. But where the hell had he gone to, anyway? Again that weird feeling came over Lew momentarily, but he brushed it aside. It was just that one of the commonest things in life - death - was still strange to him. But after strangeness comes familiarity, after familiarity, contempt. ("Dusk To Dawn")”
“Lewin sprach nur aus, was er in dieser letzten Zeit wirklich gedacht hat. Er sah überall nur den Tod oder spürte seine Nähe. Aber sein begonnenes Werk beschäftigte ihn deswegen nur um so mehr. Irgendwie musste man sein Leben fristen, bis der Tod kam. Alles schien ihm in Dunkel gehüllt, aber gerade dieses Dunkel ließ ihn empfinden, dass der einzige leitende Faden sein Werk war, und er klammerte sich mit seiner letzten Kraft an diesen Faden und hielt sich fest.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.”
“Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything was different. He was a dreamer. “It would be nice, but it’s not gonna happen, Lewis. You shouldn’t spout off talk like that, giving false hope to people. It’d be better if they focused on surviving. It’s more important than some silly dream.”
“But Alice, dreams are how people get by in a place like this,” Lewis countered. His freckles faded with his smile. “We gotta find somethin’ to hold onto, else we’ll all go mad.”
Source: Alice
“Lewis gazed at the moon and then to Wren and once more at the moon and back to Wren, realizing, startlingly, he could not tell the two entities apart.”
Source: Shark Heart
“Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.”
Source: If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
“Lewis obediently stared at her, and Kira tried to make her voice sound confident. "You don’t feel anything. You’re not afraid." "I am," came Vlad’s immediate reply. "If you tell him wolves are the children of the night next, I might hurt myself laughing."”
“Lewis realized he did not fear death but grief, the ache of being alone and mangled by change.”
Source: Shark Heart
“Lewis Richardson wrote that his quest to analyze peace with numbers sprang from two prejudices. As a Quaker, he believed that "the moral evil in war outweighs the moral good, although the latter is conspicuous." As a scientist, he thought there was too much moralizing about war and not enough knowledge. "For indignation is so easy and satisfying a mood that it is apt to prevent one from attending to any facts that oppose it. If the reader should object that I have abandoned ethics for the false doctrine that 'tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner' [to understand all is to forgive all], I can reply that it is only a temporary suspense of ethical judgment, made because 'beaucoup condamner c'est peu comprendre' [to condemn much is to understand little]." (p. 200)”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age, to have been shattered by the most brutal and devastating war yet known." (51) Part (McGrath suggests) of Lewis's well-documented search for truth and meaning, that search that ultimately led him to Christianity, emerges from the desire to make sense of his traumatic experience in ways that satisfied him spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually.”
Source: C. S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
“Lewis's mutation was like the weather; they could prepare, but they could not control a thing.”
Source: Shark Heart
“Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice.”
“Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.”
“Lewis thought all children came into the world knowing some truth about magic and God. He thought the journey of adulthood was to forget about these things and then partake in the path to remembering. Lewis said one of the purposes of art was to point people toward what they already knew. Now Wren really needed to know: Where is the art here, Lewis? And what path?”
Source: Shark Heart
“Lewis told Margaret stories about Wren, who at times seemed like a character in a wonderful book, a static entity whose movements, while profound, would always be limited to a finite story.”
Source: Shark Heart
“Lewis watched her flutter away, recalling the last time a woman left him alone in the ocean. Both times he was passive. Both times he felt euphoric and then promptly forlorn.”
Source: Shark Heart
“Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too.”
Source: Shark Heart
“Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king”
“Lex, this'll sound weird, but when I was a kid I believed in monsters. You know, like vampires. Werewolves. Ghosts. And I believed in them because I knew at least one other monster existed. He wore a shirt with his name stitched across the pocket. And carried a fifth for a weapon.”
Source: Faking Normal
“Lex was about to ask what in the dickens that was supposed to mean, but then Uncle Mort nodded at Wicket in a secretive manner, which roughly translated as 'Screw you and your curiosities, Lex. We're telling you NOTHING.”
Source: Rogue
“Lexi glanced around the studio. She heard him in the bathroom. The door was slightly ajar, but she couldn't see him.
"A pity," she whispered.”
Source: Passion Ignites
“LEXI: I’d settled for this awful existence because I’d convinced myself it was better than being alone.
...But it’s not.”
Source: Air Ryder
“LEXI: I feel like I belong here. Hell, maybe I always did belong, and I just needed to leave to see how good I had it. This place is home, and I love my job.......Maybe that means the big city defeated me.....
RYDER:Nah, you just figured out what you want. There’s no defeat in that.”
Source: Air Ryder
“Lexi looked him up and down and laughed. "I'll fight every one of you. I'll make it my goal to slice off every Dark Fae dick. I'll make sure that you can't harm another human again”
Source: Passion Ignites
“Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.”
“LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged
“Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.”
Source: Johnson's English Dictionary
“Lexicographers are language reporters.”
“Lexicographers may be nerds who don't like human contact, but we're still people.”
“Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.”
“Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.”
“Lexie,” he said, his voice guttural, “I told you this to wake you up. A man like me isn’t capable of being your fucking white knight.” His fingers peeled my hand from his neck and he gently pressed me away.
I felt the anger boil up inside me. “I’m not looking for a hero!”
He flinched at the emotion cracking my words.
“I never asked for that.” I shook, my hands curling into fists at my side. “I just wanted you, because despite what you might think, I see you. And no, you’re no fucking white knight, but you’re what I want.”
Source: Hero
“Lexie, I practically sold my soul to get where I am today. I’m a selfish bastard … and you …” His eyes washed over my face. “You’ve already lost everything to keep your soul intact.”
Source: Hero
“Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.”
Source: Lilith
“Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.”
“Lexy lay curled up in Greys arms on the couch and slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again.
The Children of Ankh series”
“Ley, derecho, justicia, honor y gloria, de todo esto se habla mucho en la guerra, como se habla de la salud en casa de los enfermos.”
“Leymah's friend who came back to cry with her sisters, and all the women who ever accepted their pain without passing it on were not just sharing their grief but finding their voice because their voice was buried underneath their grief. If we can face our pain, we can find our voice, and it is so much easier to face our pain and find our voice together.”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“Lezen is eigenlijk net patience spelen. Verhalen zijn zinloos omdat ze niet tot een inzicht leiden. Wel nodigen ze uit tot spelen, tot het maken van nieuwe reeksen, met misschien wel als enig nut het verdrijven van de verveling. Persoonlijk ingrijpende boeken? Ik denk niet dat die bestaan. En een nuttig boek? Ik ken er geen een.”
“Lezzetli birkaç lokma yemek, üzerine düşünülmüş bir şarap ve şimdiye kadar tanıdığım belki de en düşünceli garsonlarla ettiğim kısacık sohbetlerle dolu bir akşamüstü… Kendimi erik ağacına dadanıp biri görmeden ne var ne yoksa cebine dolduran çocuklar gibi hissediyorum. Hayat kulağımdan tutup çekene kadar yürümeye, görmeye ve tatmaya devam etme niyetindeyim.”
Source: Yavaş Seyahat - Aheste Bir Ruhun Gözlemleri
“Leía mucho, lo que no quiere decir que leyera muchos libros. Más bien prefería releer las obras que me habían gustado. (...) Así pues, no tenía este punto en común con los demás, y leía mis libros a solas y en silencio. Los releía y cerraba los ojos y me llenaban de su aroma. Sólo aspirando la fragancia de un libro, tocando sus páginas, me sentía feliz.”
“Leíamos el cielo como si en él contempláramos el mapa de nuestras almas.”
Source: Lágrimas de bosque
“Ležao je tu jer na onkologiji nije bilo mesta. Na neurologiji uvek ima mesta. Pacijenti na neurologiji brzo umiru i ustupaju lebensraum sledećoj grupi nevoljnika na koje je došao red da umru.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“Ležim u krevetu i zurim u sliku s tog seoskog vjenčanja. Poželim čašu onog vina u tamnosivoj, visokoj čaši što ju je moja majka kupila u robnoj kući i onda donijela na selo, komplet s vrlo teškim vrčem u koji se točilo vino. U takvim sam čašama provodio seoska ljeta. U tom sivom, debelom staklu, zaštićen od bljeskova, od dodira i od tuđih usana. Bio je to praznični komplet, za goste. Ali samo načelno. Ustvari, te su čaše bile moje i bratove. Iz njih smo pili bevandu, limunadu i u boljim danima Cedevitu. Ja sam se u njih i skrivao, pri svakom strahu ili udarcu dječje tuge, sklonio bih se u to sivo stako, iza čvrstog staklenog obruba koji je imitirao konopac. I to je sklonište radilo. Samo je trebalo zatvoriti oči, naći negdje na jagodicama prstiju barem tihu kretnju i njome se uljuljkati. Ali sad, ja želim otvorenih očiju, zagledan u svoga oca, uz automobil, s ružmarinom u zapučku, ući u tu čašu, ali ne uspijevam.”
Source: Sine, idemo kući
“lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.”
“lf there is anything that puzzles me in this game lt is that the longer that you are in the job of Prime Minister, the harder you have to work to do your job. With anything else, such as stenography, administering a store, or whatever done it for nine or ten years you get to know the ropes pretty well and it becomes easy and you can spend a lot of time playing golf or something. l feel that the more you know, the more you have to know and the more problems come.”
“lf you ever dare to fight against hatred, then there is but one weapon: Love.”
“lf you think like a chicken you can never fly like the eagle”
Source: Standing On God's Promises