L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.”
“Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.”
“Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.”
“Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.”
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.”
Source: All I Could Never Be
“Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incomparable frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision.”
“Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.”
“Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.”
“Like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I’ve been doing it
since before I was born.
My body is a nightmare
it hurts me every day.
I’ve been taught to resent it by boys
trying to forge themselves righteous through conquering.
They knew there was something wrong with me,
it was explained through hands
that spoke only in exclamation points.”
“Like all power spots, it needs to be treated with respect.”
“Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.”
“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“Like all reading children... I read way ahead of myself, blundering into Austen and Voltaire and Dostoyevsky... understanding bits and not understanding lots; but that's how we learn to speak and read, isn't it?--by doing it: not word-by-word-exactly-correct, but with mistakes and misunderstandings, in bits and gulps and clumps that finally begin to stick together and make sense. Literature is a major tool for understanding the world and the life we have to live, and we learn to use it by using it.”
Source: Cheek by Jowl: Talks and Essays on How and Why Fantasy Matters
“Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.”
Source: God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
“Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
“Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.”
Source: Cold comfort farm
“Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created”
Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
“Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.”
Source: God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
“Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.”
“Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.”
“Like all rivers, they will eventually lead to the sea.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.”
“Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.”
Source: History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation
“Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.”
Source: Feminine Psychology
“Like all security, privacy is hard.”
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily against the pin. Now the meter broke.”
Source: Anansi Boys
“Like all sex and love addicts, I can feel someone’s attention and attraction from a hundred yards away—hell, I can feel them from the other side of a continent.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“Like all shrinks she was a deeply troubled person.
From "Fat Jimmy And The Blind Ballerina" due out early 2017.”
“Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.”
“Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be understood, and yet it is increasingly the only lens used. Everything in the past is seen as racist, and so everything in the past is tainted.”
Source: The War on the West
“Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.”
“Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.”
“Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.”
“Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.”
“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Like all successful politicians I married above myself.”
“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.”
“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and family disagreements."" Queen Elizabeth II”
Source: The Job Well Done: The Queen's Way to Successful Leadership
“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
“Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“Like all the books you have ever come across, you think it looks interesting.”
Source: Life Hacks for a Little Alien
“Like all the girls back then I knew that being too clever was much worse than being too tall. Being five foot three, tongue-tied and blonde I mostly passed muster, except that I was so unskilled in small talk that I sometimes blurted big words (hypocrisy, or pretentiousness), which jumped out of my mouth like the toads of the fairy tale before I knew it. In any case, you could cultivate the wrong sort of silence - the sort that implied brooding self-absorption rather than attentiveness.”
Source: Bad Blood
“Like all the most powerful paths, flow is disarmingly simple. Having a beginner’s mind is a great help when it comes to letting flow take your life higher.”
“Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides. Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?" It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes." I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo. Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?”
Source: The Indigo King
“Like all the other defense mechanisms, delusion is invisible to us, making it a serious problem: we don't know we are deluded. We live in an unreal world based on our delusions, but we see that unreal world as reality. Because we can't afford to hear the facts about our lives as they really are, we often get very angry with people who try to point out any fallacies in our delusions. This position leaves us very vulnerable, since both reality itself and anyone with a strong sense of reality tend to threaten the view we have of our world. People in delusion tend to isolate themselves from those who might reveal the truth about their lives.”
Source: Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives
“Like all these women in Hollywood, people don't realize that they work out like six hours a day with a personal trainer and have a chef. They can pay for all of that stuff, and that's why they look like that.”