L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like a caterpillar, when you feel that your time is over, you may reach infinite light with infinite joy.”
“Like a cautious traveler, I tried to protect myself from the wind and lost my soul instead.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
“Like a ceaseless fire
Over all the experiences,
Vast sensation and desires,
Every emotion in essence!”
Source: ACross Tic
“Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.”
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
“Like a child building a new toy with a heap of Lego blocks, I reassembled the useful pieces from the debris of my old life with patience, persistence and a strong belief that a better life was possible.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.”
“Like a child I close my eyes in the hopes that when I open them again, the natural order will be overturned, the impossible made plausible by desire alone.”
Source: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.”
Source: It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice
“Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.”
“Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.”
“Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.”
“Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired”
“Like a Chinese finger puzzle made of woven straw, finding relief requires us to relax rather than pull in order to gain release.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.”
“Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.”
“Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.”
“Like a clown car, they excitedly filed into a single line and followed the server straight into the bustling lunch crowd at Crawfish & Beignets. It was the siblings' neutral zone, a place where no fighting was allowed.
Except this time felt more like the Last Supper.
Seafood boils were a staple of their childhood, reminding them of all the best parts of being Vietnamese American in the South, and none of the bad. Though unspoken, the migration of the Viet-Cajun boil always lingered over them, reminding them of its roots in Louisiana, from other Vietnamese folks who resettled in Houston after Hurricane Katrina, and the resiliency that came with it.”
Source: The Family Recipe
“like a coin flip / no bid death
where that stately cocksure heart
placed as an emasculated fountain”
Source: Thy Rêve Keys
“Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.”
“Like a comic book superhero, your side hustle needs a history. Don't just give 'em the facts; tell them a story.”
Source: Side Hustle: From Idea To Income in 27 Days
“Like a communal sigh, all of us, us warriors, us soldiers, longed for better times. For times where death was a fear, not a constant. For times where a man's life meant something, where blood was no allowed to pool among the weeds. For an end to hard times.”
“Like a community sing, a howl is a happy occasion. Wolves love to howl. When it is started, they instantly seek contact with one another, troop together, fur to fur. Some wolves will run from any distance, panting and bright-eyed, to join in, uttering, as they near, fervent little wows, jaws wide, hardly able to wait to sing.”
“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. Remember that Mariam.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.”
“Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films—like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you actually talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all. With Rombes, Two Dollar Radio deftly demonstrates why it is rapidly becoming the go-to press for innovative fiction.”
“Like a crowd in my head, so loud.
I wonder what it's like to be dead, I hope it's quiet.
Noise in my head like a riot.
Any remedy you have for me, I'll try it.”
“Like a crucible for the soul, difficult situations and relationships refine our character, moulding us into beings adorned with the virtues of patience, tolerance, and the art of forgiveness.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.”
“Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.”
“Like a dark cloud before the pour, adversity often heralds the cleansing rain of resilience and strength.”
Source: Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I
“Like a dart the present glances,
Silent stands the past sublime.”
Source: The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring
“Like a day, a night is, not a period, but the location of a portion of the earth in relation to the position of the sun.”
“Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.”
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust
“Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of you
the bittersweet echoes
infixed forever in my heart”
“Like a detective keenly searching for clues, our daughters are solving the mystery of womanhood itself.”
Source: The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
“Like a diamond, the more clarity we have, the more value we bring.”
Source: Clarity is Power: How to Stop Comparing and Step Into Your Personal Authority
“Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.”
Source: The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
“Like a doctor watching a patient in agony, the nostalgist feels powerless before the passage of time, as was the case for many anthropologists. Some of them felt outrage and a sense, no doubt, of personal loss.”
Source: Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
“Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was after all along was already its possession”
Source: The Electric Michelangelo
“Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.”
“Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.”
“Like a dolphin, breath the air of prayer. Dolphins are air breathers, but water dwellers. We are prayer breathers, but earth dwellers.”
Source: Feeling Loved: Connecting with God in the Minutes You Have
“Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.”
Source: The lollipop shoes
“Like a door
the body opened and
the soul looked out.
Timidly at first, then
less timidly
until it was safe.
Then in hunger it ventured.
Then in brazen hunger,
then at the invitation
of any desire.”
Source: Poems, 1962-2012
“Like a driver who has lost control of his vechicle, I was bracing for the impending crash."
From: "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story”
Source: Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
“Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.”
“Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.”
“Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.”
Source: Kushiel's Dart
“Like a farmer you should be too busy cultivating your crops to care what others think about the untidiness of your lands.”
Source: Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny