L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.”
“Like children in a schoolyard, they want to know what was my accident, how much did it hurt, and what did I look like afterward. ... I am not the only person I have known who has encountered emotional sightseers.”
“Like children, many of us eat what we like and we only like what we know.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.”
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel
“Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and a mirror of our own mortality. It takes a person of great heart to see past this fact and to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us.”
Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love
“Like Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay and others, Mexico believes that we should evaluate internationally agreed upon policies and search for a more effective and comprehensive response”
“Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter, but she could do without.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.”
“Like cider and aged wine I was desired,
desired like the sheer blue cascade
that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty.”
Source: Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Like clay was the sand in my fingers,
moulding into hooded, echoing figures.
Past clay voices mixed with sea water,
gurgling words of anger and blame.
I now smear sand clay upon my dress,
white linen heavy with new marks.
I carry the harsh voices as I spin around
and open my arms to the lighthouse.
[New Clay Linen]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“Like climate change, BUMMER will lead us into hell if we don’t self-correct.”
“Like clutch ballplayers, prostitutes perform beautifully in the awkward spaces.”
Source: Road Dog: Life and Reflections from the Road as a Stand-up Comic
“Like color, every SOUND is composed of many different frequencies
and can be used to clear, balance and refresh the field in which you
found yourself, or on which you are working.”
Source: Your Multi-Dimensional Workbook: Exercises for Energetic Awakening
“Like colors or a spring tree against that kind ofblue sky that pulls your heart out through your eyes. Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.”
Source: Geek Love
“Like combating evil, pushing back tyranny is ever an uphill battle.”
“Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.”
“Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.”
“Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.”
Source: A Devil's Chaplain
“Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.”
“Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.”
“Like cotton candy on a hot day,
they can’t shake it off.”
“Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.”
Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
“Like courage, empathy and compassion are critical components of shame resilience. Practicing compassion allows us to hear shame. Empathy, the most powerful tool of compassion, is an emotional skill that allows us to respond to others in a meaningful, caring way. Empathy is the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to understand what someone is experiencing and to reflect back that understanding.”
Source: I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power
“Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.”
“Like creepers, life needs support of continuous work and kindness to climb high, to bloom, and to give fragrance to the world.”
“Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.”
“Like crucifixions and pornography, it never got old.”
Source: The Unholy Cause
“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
Source: Killosophy
“Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.”
Source: Dry: A Memoir
“Like daffodils that rise with grace each spring, Gary Tolan brings light and renewal wherever he goes—quietly powerful, rooted in resilience, and always reaching for the sun.”
“Like dance moves the body,
Meditation moves the mind”
“Like dance or music, life should be a balance between chaos and orderliness. Human beings live in misery because they go to extremes; they either impose too much structures on themselves or go full hippie.”
“Like dandelions they flew across the expanse
Of desert calm without advance
They filtered through the stilled “become”
Returning to the land they knew.
They knew no more than where they flew.
And so they gathered, one and all,
And scattered it throughout their path.
Only golden-shafted majesty could still their might.
And so they flew onward, without a path.”
Source: The Rose and the Sword
“Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Like dark clouds gathering over a happy village, troubled lines had crossed his father’s face. He had turned pensive. Firangia could see his father combating something frightful. Still, he had insisted on knowing the truth.”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.”
Source: The letters of Oscar Wilde
“Like delicate lace,
So the threads intertwine,
Oh, gossamer web
Of wond'rous design!
Such beauty and grace
Wild nature produces...
Ughh, look at the spider
Suck out that bug's juices!”
Source: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
“Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!”
“Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.”
“Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.”
Source: Teaching To Transgress
“Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!”
“Like dew I was born
Like dew I vanish
..and all that I have ever done
Is but a dream
Within a dream”
Source: Shōgun, Volume 1
“Like different how?" I know I'm digging for a compliment, but I don't care.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Like Dinah says, “We can only play the cards we’ve been dealt. It doesn’t do any good to wish about things you can’t change.”
Source: Alice
“Like-dislike, good-bad, profit-loss; who gave rise to all these dualities? The society did. As far as God is concerned, there is no duality. If there are grains of food on one side and excrement on the other, in God’s eyes, they are both “material (matter)”. What does God say about this? “All are materials!”
“Like-dislike is a ‘discharge moha’ (illusory attachment that is dissipating and not binding new karma), while attachment-abhorrence is a ‘charge moha’ (illusory attachment that binds new karma).”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past.”
Source: The dead
“Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.”
“Like dominoes, when one of us takes a hit and the rest of the pack doesn't fight the impact, we eventually all come to a collapse.”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.”