L Quotes
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“Like imagination, consciousness has no limits.”
“Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.”
“Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.”
“Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.”
“Like in Facebook is simply a kiss on the check.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Like in one of your songs, my ghost will hunt down your ghost and never give it a moment’s rest.”
“Promise?” She sounds a little more hopeful. “Because if I could count on that, I think I could bear it. But what I can’t bear is . . . what if we’re never together again?”
“We will be together always,” I say with conviction. “I don’t know how, and I don’t know where, I don’t know anything, but I feel that in my heart. You and me, we will find each other, as many times as it takes.”
“You think?”
“I do. But not if you do something stupid like getting yourself killed on purpose. I feel like that could throw the whole thing out of whack. You stay alive, play your songs, love your people, live the best life you can. And I’ll be there in the Meadow waiting for you. It’s a promise. Okay?”
“Okay,” she whispers. “I’ll try. That’s my promise back.”
Source: Sunrise on the Reaping
“Like in Shrek, when Fiona tells Shrek that she’s sick of his burping and farting and everything. And Shrek’s like, “I’m an ogre. Deal with it.” And Fiona says, “What if I can’t?” So Shrek takes that potion that turns him into a hunky prince. He does it out of love for Fiona. And then Fiona realized she don’t want him to be a hunky prince. She wanted him to turn back into an ogre.”
“Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is when the space gets flattened or the space collapses. It's the same with the technique in the sculptures: for some to feel really wrong, you have to have parts be really right.”
“Like in the zoo, you will always find lots of monkeys but very few lions.”
“Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.”
“Like infinte beams of light
Over all that can still move.
Various colours so bright...
Enchanted be those who love!”
Source: ACross Tic
“Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.”
“Like irrevocably love you. Like full on Bella loves Edward kind of love.”
Source: Coffee & Curveballs
“Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom”
“Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be - and often is - abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.”
Source: The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times
“Like it or not, a caterpillar must first live as a chrysalis before becoming a butterfly. Maybe I remember those days because I am going through a chrysalis stage.”
“Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.”
“Like it or not, how we each present ourselves to the world, by way of our appearance, attire, behavior, and speech, all send messages on our behalf.”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Like it or not, life is a never-ending confrontation with bouts of uncertainty and chapters of self-discovery. As I was about to learn, it is a series of fine messes that we enter, some wittingly, and others not.”
Source: My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
“Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.”
“Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation.”
Source: 4 Hours
“Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'”
“Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love
genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that,
few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Like it or not, we are all subscribers to the world’s newspaper
Written big in the frame of the window in front of us.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“Like it or not, we are stuck with science. We had better make the best of it. When we finally come to terms with it and fully recognize its beauty and its power, we will find, in spiritual as well as in practical matters, that we have made a bargain strongly in our favor.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by.
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up.... Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Like it or not, we humans are bound up with our fellows, and with the other plants and animals all over the world.
Our lives are intertwined.”
Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.”
Source: The Girl Who Was on Fire
“Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.”
“Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87”
“Like it or not, I'm the new f***ing Aquaman buddy.”
“Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.”
“Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.”
“Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed with your skills they can't resist hauling your art home. These three factors are what dictate most art sales.”
Source: Artist Confidential: Secret Guidelines of Professionals
“Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.”
“Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.”
“Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?”
“Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.”
“Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning.”
“Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.”
“Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.”
“Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.”
Source: Living History
“Like it say in the good book, what goes around comes around".
"What good book is that?" Charlene asked. "Guns and Ammo?”
Source: The Trees
“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”
Source: Lock and Key
“Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.”
Source: You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
“Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.”
“Like its value, money’s ability to control others, or to make them envious, is not affected by how it was made.”