L Quotes
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“Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.”
“Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.”
“Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.”
“Like a lot of people with mental illness, I spend a lot of time fronting. It’s really important to me to not appear crazy, to fit in, to seem normal, to do the things “normal people” do, to blend in.
As a defense mechanism, fronting makes a lot of sense, and you hone that mechanism after years of being crazy. Fronting is what allows you to hold down a job and maintain relationships with people, it’s the thing that sometimes keeps you from falling apart. It’s the thing that allows you to have a burst of tears in the shower or behind the front seat of your car and then coolly collect yourself and stroll into a social engagement…
We are rewarded for hiding ourselves. We become the poster children for “productive” mentally ill people, because we are so organized and together. The fact that we can function, at great cost to ourselves, is used to beat up the people who cannot function.
Because unlike the people who cannot front, or who fronted too hard and fell off the cliff, we are able to “keep it together,” whatever it takes.”
“Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.”
“Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship. And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It's much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It's an ongoing process to turn the tide.”
“Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.”
“Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.”
“Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better.”
Source: This Is a Book
“Like a lot of rural places, southern Illinois is basically a bunch of small towns knit together, a Babel's Tower mix of rednecks, rubes, freaks, tweakers, gun nuts, and aging hippies--real hippies, not the newfangled crunchy kids they're turning out these days--who'd fled into the dark-licked hills sometime during the bloodiest days of a war that wouldn't stop shaping their lives and had never come out.”
“Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out of academia. Without moving to London, I couldn't see a way of working for a publishing house whose work I liked. Believe it or not, the simplest way for me to get into publishing was to start my own press.”
“Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.”
Source: A Brief History of Ireland
“Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes I think that what I'm writing now might not even have an impact for the next three or four generations. Sometimes I sit there and write, and I think, "It'll be two hundred years before they get what I'm writing about."”
“Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.”
“Like a lot of women, I'm bisexual. Once I have sex with you - bye!”
“Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.”
“Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.”
“Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.”
“Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.”
“Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.”
“Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.”
“Like a loving parent who watches their child learning to walk, the Divine is the ultimate parent letting us experiment, fall down, hurt ourselves, cry, get back up, and try again. God allows us to learn even when it may hurt, yet we are never abandoned.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing.
We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.”
Source: The War Of Art
“Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”
Source: Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way
“Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.”
Source: Lips Touch: Three Times
“Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments ... to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.”
“Like a man, I am oblivious to the stakes of the diagnosis and to Lynette's rage taking on new proportions. I don't think I would have responded any differently pretransition. I didn't feel like a woman then. In the rare moments I have thought about my female anatomy, it's only to consider how to make it disappear. I yearned for my mother's breast cancer to be the genetic kind so I could have a preventive double mastectomy, and was disappointed when she called me gleefully to tell me it wasn't. I don't anticipate Lynette's rage coming at me, and I make a terrible joke: "Maybe the doctor would do a twofer," I say as we leave the surgeon's office. I would love to get rid of the body parts she is clinging to. I don't have a clue what it feels like to inhabit her body even though in a biology classroom way our bodies still have plenty in common. Binaries mean everything and nothing in these moments. The binary of what remains of our shared women's anatomy still does not allow me to inhabit what Lynette feels like as a woman losing her uterus. The binary that makes me a man in this situation brings a truth home to Lynette's body that we thought we had faced but hadn't.”
Source: Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
“Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.”
“Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.”
“Like a management consultant is hired to guide people in managing and solving their business problems, a belief system works as a mentor or guru or life coach or consultant to direct people in managing and resolving their life problems.”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“Like a masterful stitch embellishes fabric, the right words intricately weave beauty into the tapestry of life.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.”
“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.”
“Like a mermaid on a shore I loved you. Abandoned, a bit dead, a bit dreamy, like a mermaid.”
Source: SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere
“Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“Like a meteor drifting through space, we were surrounded by both everything and nothing at once.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“Like a midget at a urinal I was going to have to stay on my toes.”
“Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.”
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A
“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”
Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel
“Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.”
“Like a moth is drawn to the light we are drawn to melancholy, we succumb to it.”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame”
Source: Flags of Our Fathers
“Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.”
“Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.”
“Like a mountain that's growing.”
“Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much”
“Like a new creature, maybe an angel, you have shocked everyone with such beauty.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“Like a newborn baby naturally cries out for milk, a true Christian naturally hungers for righteousness.”
“Like a noose around my neck, The Fates have tied a string to you and me. It tightened around my roots and pulled me from the ground long enough for you to put the pomegranate seeds in my mouth. And I should want to make you bleed dear Hades, but all I keep on thinking is how good the darkness tastes to me. And when Spring has sprung, I’ll use my powers to grow my roses with the sharpest of thorns, and you won’t know what is happening until I make you bleed.
Love, Persephone”