L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.”
“Like a faucet that consistently drips the impact of debt can be small in the short term but significant over 5, 10, and 20yrs.”
“Like a favorite song, old dreams keep on playing in my mind
They've waited for so long, for their time to finally arrive
I do believe now's the time,
I've gone years and years without really living
Minding squeaky wheels just giving and giving
And dreaming,
Like wildflowers growing through sidewalk cracks
The weight of the world makes 'em change their tracks
To find, the sun, and shine
Now, now, now's the time”
“Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”
Source: Saint Richard Parker
“Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away”
“Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.”
“Like a fiend in a cloud,
With howling woe,
After night I do crowd,
And with night will go;
I turn my back to the east,
From whence comforts have increased;
For light doth seize my brain
With frantic pain.”
“Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.”
Source: A Life of One's Own
“Like a fighter pilot that goes full throttle,
Like a bullet train that wants to lead,
Like an inspiring game of spin the bottle,
I desired creativity and its unique speed.
Like a lady who walks with dignity and pride,
Like a gentleman who stands by justice and truth,
Like a loose cannon with a constructive attitude,
I treasured the power of gratitude.”
Source: On The Edge of Town
“Like a filmy soap bubble, her smile reached me leisurely and got busted on my face to liberate all the pressure it wombed through its way.”
Source: Spoor of an Indian Horse
“Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.”
“Like a finger coded in prints, the soul also has prints. And this is the reason why everyone is unique.”
Source: These Words Burn Like Fire
“Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.”
Source: Soul Solution
“Like a flame burning away the darkness
Life is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.”
“Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?”
“Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.”
“Like, a flood seems like a great way to punish every living creature in the world except for fish. What the hell is a god supposed to do when all the FISH start being assholes?”
Source: Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology
“Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.”
“Like a flower, may you blossom this month with love and gracefulness.”
“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.”
Source: Fool's Errand
“Like a flower that falls as a little raindrop brushes by, you say those words like it’s nothing to you.”
Source: Skeleton Flower: Things That Have Been Released and Set Free
“Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.”
“Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I would ever be this way but you have changed all things for me.”
“Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down”
“Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...”
“Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.”
Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“Like a forest thriving and throbbing with vitality
I absorb all energy,
I accept all energy descending from the sky and
arising through the earth,
I allow All energy to flow through and enrich my life
Branching out and overflowing into new stems of expression,
My Kingdom is a Sustainable Power
Surging with life”
Source: Affirmations for Glowing skin
“Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore.”
“Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds.”
“Like a fragile leaf refusing to dance with the breeze, those who cling to the fallen branches of their past fail to embrace the blossoming gardens of the present, revealing a barren soul devoid of self-esteem.”
Source: The Unapologetical Abyss
“Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.”
“Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.”
“Like a funeral, a birthday wasn't yours but for the people who loved you.”
Source: Henry, Himself
“Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!”
“Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.”
Source: Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self
“Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.”
“Like a geyser there is a life force bubbling from undernearth pushing forward and up with an energy to burst like fireworks. Keep that energy flowing. If you stuck and limit that energy all types of depletion will cause every kind of dis-ease...just release it straitght foward and in high. Keep that good vibe!! Mahalo and Aloha”
Source: Flat Feet: An Autobiography of a Cosmic Dancer
“Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Like a giant doomed to eat damsels, Q. must fill a vast daily quota of attention and adulation from varied sources. In a small town he might run out of people, but by keeping in constant motion, he's in no such danger. The only danger is to those suppliers of attention who expect some continuity of response, who fail to understand that for Q. people are an inexhaustible natural resource for his sustenance and delight, like air or water or sunshine.”
Source: The Fatigue Artist
“Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer!”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.”
“Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.”
Source: A Certain Slant of Light
“Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
Source: Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
“Like a god, / I believe in nothing.”
Source: Duende
“Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.”
Source: Imogen: And Other Poems
“Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.”
“Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.”
“Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.”
Source: The Toughest Indian in the World
“Like a good-looking John Merrick, mine was a face that looked really shit.”
Source: I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan