L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.”
“Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.”
Source: 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”
Source: Complete cinematic works: scripts, stills, documents
“Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.”
“Like Louie, I’ve been yelling and yelling, trying to get God to see how disappointed I am with this life He forced on me. How afraid I am to trust Him again. And He’s been patiently waiting, pushing me past boundaries, asking me to be vulnerable, testing me with new challenges, all to help me see that His way is better and perfect and it’s okay that it doesn’t always make sense.”
Source: Love and the Silver Lining
“Like love, like gravity, sex can warp the fabric of time and space.”
Source: The Visitor Rises: A Friendly Reverse Harem+ Tale (Interracial MMMFF)
“Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.”
Source: Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”
Source: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
“Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep”
“Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.”
“Like love, grief fades in and out.”
“Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated”
“Like love, travel makes you innocent again.”
Source: Deep Play
“Like Lucas [Goodman] has said, between the people we've met, and the experiences we've had, it's just our growth. It's just something that represents all of what Lion Babe started as and where we're going.”
“Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.”
“Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.”
“Like MacMillan and the clique of teachers and the coaches who all went to the same church and barbecued at one another's houses, much of the country's small-bore civil servants were itching to do some repressing of their own. Millions of Dick Cheney wannabes swelling the ranks, enjoying their little authoritarian fiefdoms.”
Source: Ohio
“Like madness, is the glory of this life.”
“Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.”
Source: New and selected poems
“Like magic, some music appears in the air, out of nowhere, like a mirage, like the fluff in my belly button.”
Source: "Darling, it's not only about sex"
“Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.”
Source: The Sugar Queen
“Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will accept a single one of his conditions. Let me tell you. Arafat went to Oslo and signed [the agreement]. What did Israel do? They confined him in Muqata in one room and killed him.”
“Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.”
“Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.”
“Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.”
“Like many a resistance fighter she exploited her sex and her social situation and had few qualms about using deception and violence to advance her cause.”
Source: The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
“Like many addicts, I always suspected there was something wrong with me. I was a full-on romantic obsessive by the time I was in grammar school (I can still tell you the birthday of every boy I had a crush on in second grade). I knew I was out of control by the time I reached high school, when I kept bouncing from boyfriend to boyfriend, from drama to drama, never able to find peace with anyone. I didn’t know what was wrong with me, but I knew that my friends didn’t act the way I acted. My early twenties were an even bigger mess, as I shipwrecked my heart and body upon one rocky shore after another. But I always thought I could get myself under control by using willpower and common sense—or by finding a new partner. And many times over the years I did pull myself together. I got over it and found someone new or even better. Many times, I believed I had this problem solved—only to discover that I super did not have this problem solved.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.”
“Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.”
“Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.”
“Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.”
“Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.”
“Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.”
“Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.”
“Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.”
“Like many children, I had a telescope from a young age. I was familiar with some constellations and the moon and planets. I always enjoyed looking up at the night sky and seeing the few stars up there in the orange sky in Liverpool, UK. The streetlights made it hard to see much of the night sky in Liverpool. I always enjoyed my camping trips to rural Wales because there were few streetlights and the night sky was actually black! It was a very different night sky, far more stars and the cloud of the Milky Way could be seen.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“Like many Chinese, I was incapable of rational thinking in those days. We were so cowed and contorted by fear and indoctrination that to deviate from the path laid down by Mao would have been inconceivable. Besides, we had been overwhelmed by deceptive rhetoric, disinformation, and hypocrisy, which made it virtually impossible to see through the situation and to form an intelligent judgment.”
Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.”
“Like many compositions of its kind - all muscles, square jaws and sunshine - it is stronger on the socialism than the reality”
Source: Lenin on the Train
“Like many cruel and evil women, Morgan le Fay knew men’s weaknesses and discounted their strengths. And she knew also that most improbable actions may be successful so long as they are undertaken boldly and without hesitation, for men believe beyond proof to the contrary that blood is thicker than water and that a beautiful woman cannot be evil.”
Source: The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
“Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my children - and my desire to make the world better a better place for them, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.”
“Like many doctors he had an ego greater than his competence.”
Source: Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline
“Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.”
Source: Bandit Love
“Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work.”
Source: A House with Good Bones
“Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles.”
“Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so simple and so significant, that one would think it would have been recognized by many and would be the starting point for any discussion on the causes of disease. Not yet.”
Source: Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments
“Like many, he’d been watching the country tear itself apart over Brexit and whilst he’d never had any real interest in politics, it was fairly clear that the growing social tension was not only fuelling resentment and division, it was creating a political vacuum.
If Billy knew one thing, it’s that any kind of vacuum equalled opportunity and whilst he had no idea how that might manifest itself, he’d suspected that working with the veterans and having a group of lads at his beck and call might well prove advantageous at some point. All he had to do was make sure that whatever form that opportunity might take, he had to be ready to grab it with both hands when the time came.”
Source: In the Know
“Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.”
Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
“Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.”