L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.”
“Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...”
“Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.”
“Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry.”
Source: The Last Encore
“Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.”
“Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.”
“Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.”
“Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.”
Source: The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow: The Miller of Old Church
“Like all boys, they never walked anywhere, but named a goal and lit for it, scissors and elbows. Nobody won. Nobody wanted to win. It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart”
Source: Rinkitink in Oz
“Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“Like all businesses ACID has its ups and downs. There are actually seasons when business will pick up such as Christmas time and carnival time. There are other times when business will run very slow.”
“Like all children, he was too young to take care of himself but capable of extreme emotional destruction.”
Source: Bright Young Women
“Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.”
Source: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography
“Like all collectors, I exist in a perpetual state of want that bears no reasonable relationship to the quantity of unread books mounting up on my shelves.”
Source: My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
“Like all conversations about trolling with someone who identifies as a troll, they inevitably circle back to what he describes as 'my free speech bullshit'.”
Source: Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout
“Like all creations, I have come to understand that the messages I received have their own path to follow, and their own timing in which they needed to be set free.”
Source: Soul Wisdom: A Guide to Miraculous Living
“Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.”
Source: A Short History Of Progress
“Like all cults, this new one adeptly represses heresy. . . . In defiance of the Western scientific tradition, which maintains that skepticism of inferences drawn from observation is always in order, and that all accepted conclusions are always subject to review and potential overthrow by new data, the climate catastrophists insist that ‘the science is settled’ (science is never ‘settled’) and that therefore no debate, and no new data, can or should be entertained. Those wishing to advance theories or data contrary to the accepted orthodoxy are not merely wrong, but criminal ‘deniers’ who should be silenced, vilified, and if possible, prosecuted.”
Source: Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism
“Like all disappearing forms, art seeks to duplicate itself by means of simulation, but it will nevertheless soon be gone, leaving behind an immense museum of artificial art and abandoning the field completely to advertising.
A dizzying eclecticism of form, a dizzying eclecticism of pleasure - such, already, was the agenda of the baroque. For the baroque, however, the vortex of artifice has a fleshly aspect. Like the practitioners of the baroque, we too are irrepressible creators of images, but secretly we are iconoclasts - not in the sense that we destroy images, but in the sense that we manufacture a profusion of images in which there is nothing to see. Most present-day images - be they video images, paintings, products of the plastic arts, or audiovisual or synthesized images - are literally images in which there is nothing to see. They leave no trace, cast no shadow, and have no consequences. The only feeling one gets from such images is that behind each one there is something that has disappeared. The fascination of a monochromatic picture is the marvellous absence of form - the erasure, though still in the form of art, of all aesthetic syntax. Similarly, the fascination of trans sexuality is the erasure - though in the form of spectacle - of sexual difference. These are images that conceal nothing, that reveal nothing - that have a kind of negative intensity. The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence. Just as Byzantine icons made it possible to stop asking whether God existed - without, for all that, ceasing to believe in him.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.”
“Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.”
“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”
“Like all else, existence is the mere microcosm of a larger concept.”
Source: Death Tango
“Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.”
Source: The Dying Animal
“Like all exploited people, he had learned to stay quiet and keep his head down.”
“Like all fads which come and go, all are familiar with those types of people who want to seem tough, who for some form of acceptance want to impress others with their rigidity; but there is another kind of person that does the very same thing when espousing on 'love': while some pretend to be tougher than they really are, others pretend to be lovers when they really aren't.”
“Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots.”
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.”
Source: The Powerbook
“Like all fancies, fancied gods too do not last. All a 'One' is - this the Ultimate Reality does. Get 'It'. Before you breathe your last.”
“Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.”
“Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.”
Source: The collected plays
“Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.”
“Like all forms of delusion the key is to let go of it before it lets go of you.”
“Like all good advice, Moon didn't think he was going to have much chance to follow it.”
Source: The Serpent Sea
“Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.”
“Like all good ghost stories, Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" sets a trap for its protagonist. In the classic version of the form[...], the hero is a gentleman of mildly investigatory bent: a scholar, a collector, or an antiquarian. What lures him into the vicinity of the ghost is often intellectual curiosity and, occasionally, greed; what attracts the ghost's wrath or malevolence is the hero's tendency to meddle, to open the sealed room, to root around for treasure, to pocket a souvenir. The hero ("victim" might be a better word) typically hasn't got much personality beyond his intrusiveness; he's just someone inclined to put himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, and to rue the consequences.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.”
Source: Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry
“Like all good queens she put her people first...but the girl in her still yearned for poetry, passion, and laughter. She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.”
“Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.”
“Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.”
Source: The Jesus I Never Knew
“Like all good youngsters on Gallifrey, the Doctor had been brought up with a strong awareness of how little other species new about... anything and how they usually shouldn't been told about, well... anything, because most of the information a Time Lord might be able to offer them would at least make them retire to the country and keep bees - should their planet have bees, or similar life forms - if not actually drive them irreversibly insane.”
“Like all great adventures, this one started with someone trying to get laid. King Menelaus didn’t go to Troy for the baklava.”
Source: Free Magic Secrets Revealed
“Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.”
“Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Like all great men if you stand as they have stood you will be made great”
“Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.”
Source: Under the Glacier