L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.”
“Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.”
“Like anyone who has a relationship with Jesus knows, the coolest thing about it is that it's infinite how much you can learn and begin to understand. It's something that grabbed me.”
“Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used to put on myself to perform and succeed. To my kids' credit, they've probably helped me the most here: I'm more worried about what they're doing than what I'm doing!”
“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.”
Source: Four Past Midnight
“Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.”
“Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.”
“Like anything in life, spending time around good things will eventually make us good, being around inspiring things leads to inspiration and so on. Be the artist of your own picture and make it a masterpiece.”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“Like anything to do with trust, in any relationship it emerges and just the chemistry, vibe between two people an actor and a director. You just know whether this is someone I like to be with whose interaction with me I believe in.”
“Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.”
“Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.”
“Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.”
“Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.”
“Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.”
“Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.”
Source: 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor
“Like Arjuna, we too are enough, as we have a unique part to play in the Divine plan. And, like Arjuna, we are nothing when—in those glorious moments—we take refuge in our God, crying out in sweet surrender, “Thy will be done!” And, in an instant, we are free. Welcome Home.”
Source: An Ordinary Life Transformed
“Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.”
“Like art, sex is fraught with symbols. Family romance (Freud) means that adult sex is always representation, ritualistic acting out of vanished realities.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.”
“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”
“Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.”
“Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.”
“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.”
Source: Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender
“Like Artemis and Orion, fate was working against us, and we couldn't be together in this life. But he will forever be immortalized in my heart.”
Source: Gabriel's Collar
“Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.”
“Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.”
“Like as the culver on the bared bough
Sits mourning for the absence of her mate”
Source: Spenser's Sonnets
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.”
Source: The Sonnets and Narrative Poems
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.”
“Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.”
“Like associates with like.”
“Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.”
“Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.”
“Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said. "Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.”
“Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.”
Source: Creative Mind
“Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.”
Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
“Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.”
Source: Lips Touch: Three Times
“Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.”
“Like avocado refrigerators and outdated clothing, love becomes clutter—emotional clutter that takes up space better used for something else.”
Source: Legacy of Love
“Like avoidance, indulgence is also a form of escape. The objects of indulgence, be they drugs, alcohol, or sex, are simply used as painkillers. Experienced healers know that the real problem often does not lie in the drug or whatever object an addict is addicted to. For most addicts, the problem existed long before they started taking their drug of choice. Experienced healers also realize that getting rid of the drug does not get rid of the problem. In fact, it is critical to address the real problem at the time the drug is removed. More often than not, the drug-taking behavior is a symptom for a deep-seated unwillingness to face life as it is, i.e., a lack of gentleness. Thus, forced abstinence, without treating the root of the problem, may do more harm than good.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea.”
“Like bad debts, write-off negative people from the accounts of your life.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.”
“Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.”
“Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.”
“Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.”
“Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.”
“Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.”
“Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working.”