L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like flowers we grow, bloom, and whither - each day and each life. In our next life we'll grow, bloom, and whither even more beautifully. But although we blossom more grandiose in each new life, all our lives are perfect in their own way.”
“Like following life through creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“Like for a truth is”
Source: Spencer Brit Lit Vol I
“Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.”
“Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's a big PR exercise for him and for Russia. So, at that point $50 billion and some environmental damage and a small city's future don't really matter.”
“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Like fr tho! Pretty isn’t just a look because sometimes I really do feel too pretty to participate in certain things ~ LaTesha Monique”
Source: In The Depths of My Thoughts
“Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.”
“Like Frankenweenie is a story about a boy and his dog, Big Fish is the story of a father and his son, and all those conversations you can't have. It's universal, in a way that can go from one medium to another medium. That's been the funnest, figuring out what we can do in a Broadway show that's unique and special.”
“Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.”
“Like fresh milk,
Evil deeds do not immediately curdle;
Rather, like fire covered with ash,
They follow the fool, smoldering.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“Like freshly cut roses,
I place life in a vase...
of love.”
“Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself”
Source: Love
“Like fueling muscles, from breakdown to synthesis to recovery, nourish mind.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.”
“Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.”
“Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.”
“Like Gil, Brian had been raised as an only child by strong women. "It shaped our views of ourselves. We considered ourselves loners, on the outside of society," said Jackson. And the two of them often preferred being alone to being around other people.”
Source: Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man
“Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.”
“Like go for a walk, say a little prayer
Take a deep breath of mountain air
Put on my glove and play some catch
It's time that I make time for that
Wade the shore and cast a line
Look up a long lost friend of mine
Sit on the porch and give my girl a kiss
Start livin', that's the next thing on my list.”
“Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk”
Source: Coyote Blue: A Novel
“Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.”
Source: A Happy Trails Christmas
“Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.”
“Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident”
“Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.”
“Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but they're good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers."”
“Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.”
“Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.”
“Like grace, the results orientation is hard to describe. You perceive it when you see it,but it's grueling to portray in words.”
“Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.”
Source: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
“Like grass in rain,
my dead grow
at an amazing rate.”
Source: Book of Hours: Poems
“Like gratitude, authentic appreciation in the workplace is a realisation that can be nurtured and accessed with daily mindful practice.
By and large, people who are grateful, happy and enthusiastic are going to demonstrate better performance than those who are unhappy and unappreciative. There is increasing evidence that a grateful mindset amplifies happiness and mental and emotional wellbeing.”
Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
“Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.”
“Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.”
“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”
“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Like growth, success is often a steppingstone from failure.”
“Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.”
“Like Hamlet, Goethe's Faust offers a wide panorama of scenes from the vulgar to the sublime, with passages of wondrous poetry that can be sensed even through the veil of translation. And it also preserves the iridescence of its modern theme. From it Oswald Spengler christened our Western culture 'Faustian,' and others too have found it an unexcelled metaphor for the infinitely aspiring always dissatisfied modern self.
Goethe himself was wary of simple explanations. When his friends accused him of incompetence in metaphysics, he replied. 'I, being an artist, regard this as of little moment. Indeed, I prefer that the principle from which and through which I work should be hidden from me.”
Source: The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
“Like happiness, peace is not a destination but a state of mind one must achieve no matter how tumultuous their situation is.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison.”
“Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.”
“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.”
“Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.”
“Like having your own licence to print money.”
“Like hedonistic consumption, we are encouraged to believe that the excesses of the family are normal and that it is abnormal to believe that one can have a functional, loving family.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here."
Major Major could barely recognize him because he was wearing a faded maroon corduroy bathrobe with open seams under both arms, linty flannel pajamas, & worn house slippers with one flapping sole.”
Source: Catch-22
“Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.”
“Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the Annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her. we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as she received Him. she went with haste to give Him to John. For us also. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.”