L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany. Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry.”
“Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.”
“Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.”
“Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God.”
“Like [George] Best, there is a special fantasia about him”
“Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.”
“Like a Baptist at a liquor store, my greatest urge was to avoid being seen.”
Source: Jarring Sex
“Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.”
“Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.”
“Like a bastard child of a royal house, we’re hidden from public view.”
Source: Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.”
“Like a battery, the human mind and body must be fully discharged to stretch their capacity.”
“Like a bearded nut in robes on the sidewalk proclaiming the end of the world is near, the media is just doing what makes it feel good, not reporting hard facts. We need to start seeing the media as a bearded nut on the sidewalk, shouting out false fears. It’s not sensible to listen to it.”
Source: State of Fear
“Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.”
“Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.”
“Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.”
Source: The Cancer Ward
“Like a bird, like a squirrel,
you longed for the woods.
How you must have envied me!
Ah my sister, you will leave for a distant place before the day ends,
are you truly going alone?
Ask me to come with you.”
Source: Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)
“Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts.”
“Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”
“Like a bird, Tasha sees acutely on the periphery, and for a moment, before fear sets in, this feels somewhat prophetic. The periphery is always full of signs, of things to come, of things that once were, and of yearnings.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“Like a bird whistles freely in perfect tune,
I also allow my Soul to Sing its Song”
Source: Affirmations for Glowing skin
“Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years . . .
I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .”
“Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.”
“Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape.”
Source: The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
“like a blanket of hope, in your life may all the cold turn to warm...and may all the warmth become a glowing heat, and may all the glowing heat be a wrapped blessing of joy warming your heart”
“Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.”
“Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.”
“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Like a bolt from the blue love rises,
Suddenly one finds a mirror.
The beauty you find in the other,
Is what you hold in your innermost corner.
Suddenly we lose our voice,
To speak in love is blasphemy.
Declare your love without saying a word,
Either be an orator or lover on knees.
If they don't hear your silence,
Words won't do you any good.
Listen to the silence beyond the words,
And you shall hear the divine tune.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.”
“Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.”
“Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!”
“Like a bright light in a dark cave thy budget shows up the leaks from thy purse and enables thee to stop them and control thy expenditures for definite and gratifying purposes”
Source: Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story
“Like a broken bone, stillness is needed for the mending to begin, just as a rose bud must open for the flower to bloom.”
“Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!”
“Like a bubble in water, the civilized human rises, exists and dissolves in the people.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Like a bull in a China shop, I'd run him through, my horns stabbing his heart while my hooves stomped and crushed every bit of strength and goodness he had in him.”
Source: The Five
“like a butterfly,
her wings unfolded”
“Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.”
“Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.”
“Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.”
“Like a caring mother
holding and guarding the life
of her only child,
so with a boundless heart
of lovingkindness,
hold yourself and all beings
as your beloved children.”
“Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.”
“Like a carnival barker, she lads us on ith tantalising hints about what is inside the tent'.”
“Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.”
Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner
“Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Like a cat I have nine times to die.”
Source: Poemas
“Like a cat on a hot tin roof.”