L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.”
“Like being able to stand one foot in the rough seas knee deep and sinking. Still reach out a hand to another sister drowning.”
Source: Pivot: Pinecones & Spaceships Volume I
“Like being unwell was a crime or a scam or a self-indulgence.”
Source: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
“Like Beji, our country is a nation whose citizens has employed crooked means of survival, lives in the expense of others, cares the least about their compatriots, and are ever more than willing to do anything conceivable to plunge every vulnerable life into a pitch-dark abyss! It is, you will realize, a lovely den of hungry wolves whose ugly claws often extend a cold handshake to every beggar in the next turn...”
“Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.”
“Like Bennett, Virchow didn't understand leukemia. But unlike Bennett, he didn't pretend to understand it. His insight lay entirely in the negative. By wiping the slate clean of all preconceptions, he cleared the field for thought.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, we have to escape from the eternal recurrence of our day-to-day lives. We have to try new things, learn new things, become people of wide interest rather than narrow focus. We should test our limits, not let limits define us. When a new day comes, we should feel as grateful as Bill Murray, the most overjoyed man on earth when he was able to break out of the prison of repetition.”
Source: Nietzsche: The God of Groundhog Day
“Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
“Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.”
“Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.”
“Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!”
“Like black, do you? (Cassandra) It serves its purpose. It’s hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)”
“Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.”
Source: Magdalene
“Like Bloomingdales like Trina Turk. Sunglasses, bathing suits, makeup, jewelry”
“Like boats, we human beings need anchors, no matter how tenuously those links may hold us, or else we drift forever through uncharted oceans, scanning every horizon for a hint of hope. And with the chances of being picked up and rescued so small, we need our islands, our mooring points, our ports, our points of reference and our havens.”
Source: Phoenyx: Flesh and Fire Erotic Memoirs of a Striptease Artist
“Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.”
“Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.”
Source: Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition
“Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.”
“Like books, artists have their fates.”
“Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.”
“Like Boticelli’s Venus, you rose from the sea and are still all foam!”
“Like branches in a tree, we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Like branches in a tree, we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.
Poem 'Forked Branches' 2010 Rise Up and Salute the Sun, pg. 108”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Like breaking a leg, a serious injury to the psyche often gets us benched while the regular game of life goes on. It may seem strange that forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“Like Breccan was known to do, he pushed the angry Gwarda a bit more. "It's settled then. She's mine." He cleared his throat and braced himself for the punch he knew would come.
Darius's fist came fast, landing hard against Breccan's jaw.”
Source: Recompense
“Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times”
“Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.”
Source: An Essay on Man
“Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.”
Source: The Life of Jesus
“Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.”
Source: Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five
“Like Bukowski I lived alone, but it never felt right.”
“Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.”
“Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...”
Source: Signals from the Stars
“Like butter spread on bread, spread love, joy and laughter.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Like butterflies, we evolve; but as Beings of Light we continuously evolve when we are fully present.”
“Like calls to like”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.”
“Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.”
“Like candy and heartbreak, moderation was key.”
Source: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
“Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.”
“Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks for the human mind, ways of manipulating us into particular decisions we otherwise might not make. They are also, in a way, deliberate underminings of the core principle of the free market, which derives its legitimacy from the idea that informed self-interest on aggregate sets appropriate prices for items. The key word is 'informed'; the point of behavioural economics - or rather, of its somewhat buccaneering corporate applications - is to skew our perception of the purchase to the advantage of the company. The overall consequence of that is to tilt the construction of our society away from what it should be if we were making the rational decisions classical economics imagines we would, and towards something else.”
Source: The Blind Giant
“Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield
“Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.”
Source: The Burning Point
“Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.”
“Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.”
“Like change, growth should be inevitable. Mankind was commanded to 'go ye into the world and multiply'. But when it doesn't seem to come, one should find within themselves to refine their attitude.”
“Like chaos in a glass cage.”
“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.”
“Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.”
“Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade.”
Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
“Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.”
Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life