L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”
“Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.”
“Life in shambles is not the end of life. Sometimes things have to fall apart before they can fall into place.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“Life in society is when everyone is there and no one is present. Life in society is when everyone obeys what no one wants. Writing is a way of escaping this impoverishment, a variation on solitude like love or gambling – a principle of insubordination, a virtue of childhood.”
“Life in squats with my mother hadn't really prepared me for what to expect from the aristocracy. On balance, I'd have to say people were a lot better behaved in the squats.”
Source: The Ink Black Heart
“Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.”
“Life in the black community has a different set of rules than the perfect America our schoolbooks go on about. Black people don’t live in that schoolbook America. Where we live, we are underpaid and over-policed, but at the same time, they expect us to work harder and longer just to get half of what they already got. It’s like they wanted us to eat dog shit, yet, they never allowed us to own dogs.”
Source: Own Son
“Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.”
“Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.”
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.”
“Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is making everything alright.”
“Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.”
Source: CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana
“Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become for a time, a part of nature. Deer hunting is a classical exercise in freedom. It is a return to fundamentals that I instinctively feel are basic and right.”
“Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.”
“Life in the physical realm is glorious, and its purpose is to bring you happiness through the awareness of who you really are. So go into this magnificent world of your creation, and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement and experience of the most glorious idea that you have ever had about yourself.”
“Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one Life. Anyone who has not fulfilled that life must step down the Truth, and when he does that, he is unconsciously betraying the Truth.”
“Life in the spirit is a saving grace.”
“Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Source: Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)
“Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.”
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES
“Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.”
“Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.”
“Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.”
“Life in this form is one-time chance, death is the inevitable consequence for anyone who is born. The record of one’s death is the primary respect one could render to the lost one. Tears of all relatives of missing people are indeed flowing due to this invaluable action by the authority.”
“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.”
“Life in this world is an attempt to see God.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!”
“Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.”
“Life in us is like the water in a river.”
“Life indeed is a made up of time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.”
Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Life inside of us is the same as outside, always flowing and never repeating. It's a constant torrent. I doubt we can control it. All we can do is enter the flux and surrender.”
Source: Sense of Home
“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.”
“Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.”
Source: Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy
“Life insurance can give you a good night's sleep”
“Life insurance can give you financial security when everyone else is in panic mode.”
“Life Insurance can help you prevent more burden to your family when you have suddenly taken out of the picture.”
“Life insurance can help your family be wealthy and avoid poverty.”
“Life insurance can help your family recover from a devastating loss.”
“Life insurance can preserve your dignity within your family and community.”
“Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.”
“Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.”
“Life insurance is a commodity.”
“Life insurance is also known as love insurance for your family”
“Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.”
“Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.”
“Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.”
“Life intrinsically has no meaning. You came with nothing. You will go with nothing. But you have the opportunity to make your Life meaningful. You can do this in small doses by doing multiple things that you love doing. Or you can do this expansively by being engaged with a larger-than-you cause, your Purpose. Here 'meaningful' really means making each moment count, by living it fully, by celebrating it! Simply, as long as you do what makes you come alive, even if you don't define it or connect it with a sense of Purpose, you are living meaningfully!”