L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.”
“Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.”
“Like a veil over a flame, desire cloaks the brilliance of one’s knowledge, casting shadows upon the clarity of understanding. Only through the gentle breeze of introspection can the smoke dissipate, revealing the radiant truth within.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.”
“Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers.”
“Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.”
“Like a vital force, love is enduring,
Like a breath of life, love is everlasting.
Love makes the human soul hopeful,
Love can make ugly things beautiful.”
Source: Grief In Pain, Relief In Poetry
“Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.”
“Like a war drum thumping out a raging surge, hearts thundered with the deep bass that tempted.”
Source: Broken
“Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you.”
“Like a wave we often float ashore to find something that feels like home.”
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“Like a well-nourished body, a healthy cash flow is essential for the vitality of your financial future.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“Like a white knight in a station wagon, he drove out of her life.”
Source: Always With You
“Like a Wife
The week before my wedding, my friend's dad
said: just don't get fat, like other wives do.
And so I brined him in a deep salt bath, added
thyme and celery. Devoured him whole, in one
big bite, so he could see just how hungry a
woman can be.”
Source: What Kind of Woman: Poems
“Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged. (Four from the Divergent trilogy)”
“Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.”
Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
“Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”
Source: Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)
“Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually all; knew of her light.”
“Like a wise serpent shedding her skin, you are called to release whatever is no longer authentic or doesn’t serve your highest good. You are not the same person you were ten or even five years ago. Acknowledge your growth and movement.”
“Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.”
“Like a woman, [she] tried only to calm herself with false reasonings and words, so that everything would remain as before and she could forget the terrible question of what would happen with her son.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!”
“Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.”
“Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural”
Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
“Like a wounded soldier
Trudging the old road home,
But I ain’t the old me,
And I walk this path alone.
I’m battle-worn, I’m battle-torn
With these scars inside my chest,
Kept up that happy face for you,
To hide that I’m a mess.
But I gave you every ounce of fight in me,
And I have no regrets.
If I was going to lose you,
At least I lost you to my best.
But it felt so wrong,
So tangled up in blue,
Like that old Dylan song,
Like I don’t know who I am,
Now that you’re gone.
But I lived through the pain.
Now I see the other side.
Now I know that life’s too short
To shut myself down and hide.
I’m battle-torn, but I’m battle-born.
These scars are part of me.
I got nothing left but what I’ve learned,
And I’ll use that, and you’ll see,
I can still give every ounce of fight in me,
Till I have no regrets,
Because if I’m going to lose someone,
I’m gonna lose her to my best.
And I’ll be strong,
When a hard rain’s a-gonna fall,
Like that old Dylan song,
You’re the reason I stand tall,
And that will never be gone.”
Source: Open Road Summer
“Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.”
“Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.”
Source: Words of Washington
“Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.”
“Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.”
“Like Adam, you are not God and you never will be. The certainty and necessity of your sleep profoundly reflect this very truth.”
Source: A Theology of Sleep: Trusting in the Lord When You Are Most Vulnerable
“Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.”
Source: Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future
“Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons.”
Source: OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works): The Virginian, The Promised Land, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Lady Baltimore, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Dragon of Wantley, Padre Ignacio, Philosophy 4, The Jimmyjohn Boss…
“Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.”
“Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.”
“Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?”
“Like after a prairie fire...It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning, the soil is richer, and new things can grow....People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.
(Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer)”
“Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.”
“Like alcohol, desperation can make a coward seem courageous.”
“Like Alec, his complexion was almost swarthy. But the Indian sun had darkened Aidan's still more, so that his skin was a dark, burnished hue that made him appear almost a foreigner- particularly when combined with the beard he'd grown, the patch he'd still worn over one eye upon his return home.”
Source: The Seduction Of An Unknown Lady
“Like Alice in wonderland I feel as though I was slipped the Drink Me Potion and unlike her the mushrooms are no where to be found.”
“Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.”
“Like all addicts, then, I have suffered—and I have been the cause of suffering in others. Like all addicts, I have kept secrets. Like all addicts, I have lived a double life. Like all addicts, I have always kept a hidden stash of supply to keep me from jonesing. (In my case, “supply” would be potential love interests, with whom I was constantly flirting, texting, temperature checking, and testing the waters—in case I needed them someday.) And there is nothing cute or harmless about flirtation when I engage in it. I’ve heard it said before that drug addicts steal people’s money, but love addicts steal people’s time, energy, and emotional attention—which is even worse, because those thefts hurt people at the level of their heart, at the deepest core of their being. Those thefts leave wounds that may never heal—deep wounds to all involved.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“Like all admirers of fairytales, she'd always loved the scent of books. She loved the paper dust in the air, the way it swirled in the light like little sprinkles of magic.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“Like all Americans, or like all Americans who are conscious of being American, Parker and Zema's father always believed he was his country. But lately he's come to realize that if he and his family didn't emerge unscathed from their American crisis, American faith in the early part of the twenty-first century didn't emerge at all. By the conclusion of the new century's first score of years, only those who have a stake in an American idea defined by wealth and power can still speak of that idea so shamelessly, since wealth and power is the only American idea left.”
Source: Shadowbahn
“Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.”
“Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.”
“Like all art, poetry becomes the art of soul alchemy.”
Source: Daydreaming in Spanglish
“Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.”