L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.”
Source: His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
“Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.”
“Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.”
“Like her granddaughter, Clotilde wielded considerable influence. When her sons — heirs to the Merovingian dynasty — were deciding whether to overthrow the young heirs of Burgundy and take their lands under their control, they placed their decision in their mother's hands. They sent her a pair of scissors and a sword, with the following instructions: if she felt they should peacefully back down she should choose the scissors and cut off their long hair, which represented their royal power. If she felt they should assert their power, she should choose the sword. She famously replied, 'It is better for me to see them dead rather than shorn.'
Clotilde was true to her name. She chose the sword. This decision brought about the murder of two young princes, aged seven and ten, killed by Clotilde's older sons on their mother's instructions. But she remained 'honoured by all' and celebrated for her humility and grace. [...]”
Source: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
“Like her hands. She didn't know what to do with them. I could imagine. I could taste on her tongue the things she wanted to do with them, but the hesitation held that vulnerability in its innocence, and I was as eager to destroy it as I was to preserve it.”
Source: Charon AU
“Like her harshness was a kind of coat she wrapped tightly round herself so nobody could see what was underneath.”
Source: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
“Like her, he spoke very little. It wasn't that he didn't have thoughts or feelings. If anything, he had too many of them. He didn't have a quiet head.”
Source: The Garden of Letters
“Like her [mother], I attempted to give the impression to Vida that I was a perfect person, had no complicated history and had never put a foot wrong in life. (What kind of a role model is that for a child?)
Divorce made an honest woman of me. Vida was eight when my marriage began to disintegrate and I couldn't bear pretending to her or anyone else any more. I was sick of trying to appear normal. Vida didn't reject me for showing my true self – that's what I imagined would happen. Far from it, we grew even closer. She especially enjoyed my swearing. (I only swore in front of her when she was older. Everything has to be revealed at an appropriate time.) A child derives a sense of safety from knowing the person who looks after them is respectful enough to be honest. Vida has never rooted around in my cupboards and drawers or turned the house upside down searching for letters and scraps of evidence to help her piece her mother together like I did. On the contrary, she knows too much. She's not fascinated by secrets because I haven't hidden anything from her, not even the ugly stuff.”
Source: To Throw Away Unopened
“Like herpes, math is here to stay”
“Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.”
“Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.”
“Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something.”
“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.”
“Like his Russian contemporary Dostoevsky — who wrote his entire novel ‘The Gambler’ in three weeks to pay off desperate gambling debts — Mendeleev threw together his first table to meet a textbook publisher’s deadline.”
Source: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
“Like his son, he too was under a false presumption that he could get justice by the way of law in a country where justice was too expensive a commodity for a poor man to afford.”
Source: The Web of Karma
“Like honey is the sleep of the just.”
“Like hot food
I love you
like warm
bread & cold
cuts, butter
sammiches
or, days later, after
Thanksgiving
when I want
whatever's left”
“Like how could you do nothing,
and say, 'I'm doing my best.'
How could you take almost everything,
and then come back for the rest?
How could you beg me to stay,
reach out your hands and plead,
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as I agreed?”
“Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.”
“Like humans, birds mourn the loss of fledglings and mates. There are a thousand variant weeping songs to sing. I had to sign mine and get on with it. That is what I did”
Source: Above Us Only Sky
“Like humans, horses have both shallow sleep and a deeper rest period of rest known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Horses need about fifteen minutes of REM sleep each day, and they can get that only while lying down.”
Source: Why Do Horses Sleep Standing Up?: 101 of the Most Perplexing Questions Answered About Equine Enigmas, Medical Mysteries, and Befuddling Behaviors
“Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God’s grace and God’s love for us… Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others. - God Has a Dream, p. 86.”
Source: God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
“Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.”
“Like Humpty Dumpty. At some point you have to pick up the pieces. Or walk away. Don't look back. Fuck the king's horses.”
Source: The Shining Girls
“Like Humpty Dumpty, in the old nursery rhyme, putting the country back together again would not be easy. This feeling of separation and alienation was not a passing thought but lived into the next century.”
Source: To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
“Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.”
Source: Perfect health: the complete mind body guide
“Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.”
“Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.”
Source: Hit Or Miss! A Musical Farce in Two Acts
“Like hunting, fishing offers up a sacrifice and a bond to the land that increases power in those with honorable tactics.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.”
Source: Sonora
“Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.”
“Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.”
“Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home.”
“Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.”
“like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.”
“Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.”
“Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.”
“Like, I know they say you can have loads of people be your soulmates or whatever, and maybe that's true, but, the thing is, what's the point of that when you meet one person and you can't even imagine another person being right for you? You being right for another person?”
Source: Sweet Heat
“Like I left a piece of myself in that little room of yours. Did you ever find it?”
“I did,” he said gently. “But it wasn’t in my room. Found it lodged in the left chamber of my heart.”
He exhaled—slow, steady.
“Went to see a cardiologist about it once,” he murmured. “He ran all kinds of scans and said, ‘It’s lodged pretty deep in there. If we try to take it out, there’s a good chance you’ll bleed out before we can stitch you back up. So, it’s either we kill you trying… or you live with it for the rest of your life.
I’m still living with it. My heart’s grown arteries and capillaries around it. It’s part of me now.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“Like, I like. Dislike, I love. Disgust, I can feel. Loathing, I can grab in the palm of my hand and squeeze. And hatred, I can live in hatred for days. But the smug smile of indifference on someone's face makes me want to hack it off.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.”
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.”
“Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and don't work hard, and there are people who are brilliant and sabotage themselves.”
“Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism.
Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell.”
Source: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1
“Like I said before, I don't know how helpful Inez will be, " she explained. "She's very eccentric and controlled by her whims. If she likes you, she might tell you something. If she doesn't, well..." Ms. Terwilliger shrugged. "Then maybe we'll have time for photo ops." "Score," said Adrian. When I shot him a look, he added quickly, "But of course she'll like you.”
Source: Bloodlines: The Fiery Heart
“Like I said, I had a rough upbringing. A little kindness from a stranger goes a long way.”
Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
“Like I said, I like having someone here. At night I look out my bedroom window, and seeing a light on in here comforts me." He paused in the doorway. "Sort of like, 'All is well in the world.' That's what light does, you know. Says all is well in the world.”
Source: The Love Letter
“Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?”
“Like I said in previous videos, if I don't come forward exposing this stuff, then I'm no different than a bully; if I don't stand by the words I've written or said, then I'd be a hypocrite!”
“Like I said, New York is out of control when it comes to chocolate chip cookies. City Bakery, Levain, and Momofuku are my top three. (Maury, as much a hippie as a Francophile, opened several City Bakery offshoots called Birdbath, where all the fixtures are recycled and green, the ingredients are local and organic, and the cookies are still giant and delicious). Ruby et Violette is an Oprah-endorsed, closet-sized outpost in Hell's Kitchen with over one hundred crazy flavors (only about twenty are served at any one time) like root beer float, peach cobbler, or French vanilla.”
Source: Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light