L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like all these years I thought it was the men who were the commitment-phobes. But actually it was me all along.”
Source: One Good Thing
“Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.”
“Like all things organically formed, there does exist a harmony, interrelated patterns, intuitive logic, and purpose, but these are subtle and you can’t find them exclusively by emotional or intellectual analysis. At first glance it’s all too complex and liquid-like, and our minds and emotions look for control and relief. To know water, you have to get wet; you can’t just sit back and analyze its components. So, do try to enjoy the swim, and don’t be afraid to just sit back and drink now and then—the water’s clean.”
Source: Re:
“Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.”
“Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.”
“Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.”
“Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female,
you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.”
“Like all types of zealotry, violent Islam is not limited to a gang of sadistic, bloodthirsty fanatics. At its foundation stands an idea. A bitter, desperate idea, a distorted idea. However, it is worth remembering that one can almost never vanquish an idea, twisted as it may be, simply by using a big stick. There must be a response; there must be an opposing idea, a more attractive belief, a more persuasive promise. I am unopposed to using a big stick against murderers. I do not believe in turning the other cheek, nor do I share the prevalent opinion whereby violence is the absolute evil. To me, the most extreme evil is not violence but aggression. Violence is the manifestation of aggression. It is often essential to curb aggression with a big stick, as long as the stick is accompanied by an appealing, convincing idea. Absent such an idea, fanatics of one kind or another will step in to fill the void.”
Source: שלום לקנאים
“Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.”
Source: The Ambassador of Christ
“Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.”
Source: Moments Of Being
“Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.”
Source: Do with Me You Will
“Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with”
Source: An Innocent Millionaire
“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”
“Like all who are impassioned, I take blissful delight in losing myself, in fully experiencing the thrill of surrender.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Like all who inhabit a police state, we live bland and obedient outer lives, while our inner ones seeth in rebellion.”
Source: The Taliban Cricket Club
“Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.”
Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'
“Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.”
“Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”
Source: Clea
“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”
“Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.”
“Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth.”
Source: The Lady of the Rivers
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.”
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.”
“Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian.”
“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.”
“Like always, Tooth snapped my hope in two and I remembered who he was.”
Source: The Girls Who Grew Big
“Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.”
“Like an actor he had a sense of approaching anti-climax before the curtain went up, a sense of great things dwindling to a small, mean end; as death itself seemed small and mean to him after the struggles of his life.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.”
“Like an alcoholic swearing this would be his last drink, this “last time” would be followed by others.”
Source: An Evil Trade
“Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.”
“Like an animal, I adapted to the world around me until it became my norm. This is me now. I'm a killer...”
Source: Seven Sins
“Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.”
Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
“Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.”
“Like an apologetic banana”
Source: Syren
“Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.”
“Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.”
“Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the bare hill;
The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon!
There's joy in the mountains:
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone.”
Source: The Major Works
“Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.”
Source: Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author
“Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life.”
“Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.”
“Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.”
“Like an Eagle I Soar unrestricted,
High above the opinions and gossip of the herd
Attentive in Every Moment
Ready to dive into every enriching opportunity
I am Fearless, I am a Powerhouse, I am a Champion”
Source: Affirmations for Glowing skin
“Like an eagle soaring above the highest mountains, soar. Let courage carry you to heights you have never imagined before.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Like an eagle who revive and reinvigorate, shed out the old dawn on the new, bring out the indomitable strength in you”
“Like an echo in the wind, love had come to him a second time and he was more than grateful it had. It meant risking again the loss of the woman he loved, but there was no help for it. He could not live without her.”
Source: Echo in the Wind