L Quotes
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“Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.”
Source: Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
“Like a good novel, her story didn’t have to be true in order to tell the truth.”
“Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.”
“Like a good seed planted on a good soil it don't matter how long it get walked and stepped on, it will still grow up and see better fruits hanging on it branches”
“Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears.”
Source: The Jester: A Novel
“Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.”
“Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.”
Source: The Healing of America
“Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. So goes the liturgical year through all the days of our lives. /it concentrates us on the two great poles of the faith - the birth and death of Jesus of Nazareth. But as Christmas and Easter trace the life of Jesus for us from beginning to end, the liturgical year does even more: it also challenges our own life and vision and sense of meaning. Both a guide to greater spiritual maturity and a path to a deepened spiritual life, the liturgical year leads us through all the great questions of faith as it goes. It rehearses the dimensions of life over and over for us all the years of our days. It leads us back again and again to reflect on the great moments of the life of Jesus and so to apply them to our own ... As the liturgical year goes on every day of our lives, every season of every year, tracing the steps of Jesus from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, so does our own life move back and forth between our own beginnings and endings, between our own struggles and triumphs, between the rush of acclamation and the crush of abandonment. It is the link between Jesus and me, between this life and the next, between me and the world around me, that is the gift of the liturgical year. The meaning and message of the liturgical year is the bedrock on which we strike our own life's direction. Rooted in the Resurrection promise of the liturgical year, whatever the weight of our own pressures, we maintain the course. We trust in the future we cannot see and do only know because we have celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus year after year. In His life we rest our own. ― Joan D. Chittister, The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series”
Source: The Liturgical Year
“Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.”
“Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.”
“Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.”
“Like a gut-punch of a sentence, like a line so sharp you have to set the book aside to catch your breath.”
Source: Book Lovers
“Like A Hanged Pitcher
Like a hanged pitcher,
No drink is pouring off me
It's natural to get numbed gradually.
Pig-headed seashells!
This boasting sky,
Is an anchor
which has fallen on my lap
This dizzy sky!
The moon's been cleared
A shadow's coming after me
Barefooted on my dreams
You used to run!
Enjoyed?!
Numb!
All my veins are connected to this land...
Like a hanged pitcher
Joyful of this sky
One day a huge whale swallowed it as a whole.
And it was over!
The Gulf was over!
You waved hands.
Like a hanged pitcher,
It's simple!
I lost the game
And gambled away...
(TRANSLATED FROM ORIGINAL PERSIAN TO ENGLISH BY ROSA JAMALI)”
Source: Selected Poems of Rosa Jamali
“Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.”
Source: As I Wake
“Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
And what you lost”
“Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?”
“Like a hero in a dream, Christ came and He rescued me.”
“Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.”
“Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.' 'Never. Going. To. Happen.”
“Like a hot Latin Dementor, Alex materializes at his side.”
Source: My Favorite Half-Night Stand
“Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.”
“Like a house that has a home and a river that flows, so does love become when you open you4 heart, even when the lights go out or the flow encounters rocks.”
“Like a house that has a home and a river that flows, so does love become when you open your heart, even when the lights go out or the flow encounters rocks.”
“Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.”
“Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.”
“Like a hypnotist's pendulum, the spectacular chandelier swung to and fro, to and fro before playing tinkling tunes on its descent. Like the crescendo of crashing cymbals in Tchaikovsky’s ‘1812 Overture’, a dramatic finale ensued as it smashed to the ground.”
Source: A Glimmer Through the Breach
“Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.”
“Like a Jewish rabbi, a Sunni cleric is a scholar, not a priest. His judgment is followed not because it carries the authority of God (it does not), but because the cleric's scholarship, his intimate knowledge of tradition, and his unbreakable bond with the past grant him special insight into God's will.”
Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
“Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Like a kelpie the sunlight feigns innocence until it meets my skin, transforming into a sharp-toothed monster that tears away at my cold dead flesh.”
Source: Blood Sipper
“like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.”
“Like a kiss on the lips is the one who gives an honest answer.”
“Like a kiss, the pain which envelops us will leave and in it's place there will be an empty pit.”
“Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her silly for living in the sky, but rather, he marveled at the wondrous life she had created on the outskirts of reality. He knew her love would elevate him to new emotional heights.”
“Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.”
“Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.”
“Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance”
Source: Becoming Enlightened
“Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.”
“Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.”
“Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.”
“Like a lighthouse keeper drawn to his window to gaze once again at the sea, or a prisoner automatically searching for the sun we he steps into the yard for his hour of exercise, Ruth looked for the water mark several times during the day. She knew it was there, would always be there, but she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside herself.”
Source: Song Of Solomon
“Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much. How much, you'll never believe or know. At every moment of the day. It is painful but also rather pleasant, if you know what I mean. I mean, that it is good to have so keen and persistent a feeling about somebody.”
“Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.”
“Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.”
Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
“Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.”
“Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head and in my heart.”
“Like a lot of other DJs, I've been wondering when the first DJ game was going to happen. Somebody even pitched me on their own idea and I thought, "I'm not a video game startup; I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this."”