L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like many streams finally meet in the sea, we are all born of nature, and ultimately disperse into nature, our identity, our memory, emotions, everything - then the only place we exist is in the memories of other people, whose lives we might have influenced in some way.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.”
“Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.”
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition
“Like many supermodels, I won't get out of bed for less than £3000. Unlike many supermodels, I don't get out of bed very often.”
“Like many Swiss-Germans, Wisner was rugged man of nature who had a gift for machinery and engineering. His grandfather was Johannes Wiesner, a Swiss mercenary from the Canton of Zürich. The German surname “Wiesner” means “of the meadows.”
Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History
“Like many things at Facebook, it didn't matter what the policy team debated or decided; it mattered what Sheryl thought. In this case she had run into one of her Harvard friends, a surgical director of liver transplantation, at a Harvard reunion and offered to help him source donors.”
Source: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.”
“Like many things in the USA, the Boeing 737 Max was built on a low budget.”
“Like many things in the USA, the electrical utility system was built on a low budget.”
“Like many things, politics only exists in the minds of the citizens.”
“Like many things, I am nothing.”
“Like many types of criminals who may often be a product of ills that exist in their society, racists are often products of similar ills – they are the uninformed hand pulling a trigger of a gun handed down to them by a vicious system of indoctrination.”
“Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.”
Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
“Like many who lack patience dealing with other humans, when it comes to animals, I have all the time in the world.”
Source: The Vulnerables
“Like many who make their livelihood with their minds, she had an outsized pride in the few things her hands had crafted. It was perhaps the only things for which Ironfist could consider her a silly old lady.”
Source: The Blinding Knife
“Like many women, I found it easy to deny to myself that the fascinating thoughts and images that crowded my mind were sexual in nature. (Women, unlike men, cannot look down to gauge a phallic barometer of sexual arousal.)”
Source: Spanking for Lovers
“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”
“Like many women, she would always find it easier to feel for a male (except, of course, her husband, against whom she bore innumerable, lifelong, deadly grudges) than for any female.”
Source: The Vulnerables
“Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.”
“Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.”
“Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation”
Source: How to Fail
“Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.”
Source: Women and Sports: 2
“Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic of youth. In my late teens I became enamored of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Artaud.”
“Like Mardi Gras and Halloween rolled into a public party at the Playboy mansion, Rio during Carnaval is like no other place on earth. And the freak-flags fly like the color guard of an invading army.”
Source: Murdered: Can You Solve the Mystery?
“Like married life itself, wife-dressing is pretty basic. It requires frank understanding of yourself, a healthy attitude toward your new responsibilities, a willingness to learn from experience, and a buoyant elation about being alive.”
Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife
“Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.”
“Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.”
“Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had in this mortal life. And all those who vibrate in harmony to language that itself vibrates to the harmonies of the infinite are entitled to inclusion among the "small group of people.”
“Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.”
“Like me as I am or leave me were you found me!”
“Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.”
“Like me or not, it's most likely to die.”
“Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.”
“Like ‘me’, ‘you’ is merely a particular activity of the mind, which is merely a particular process of the brain.”
“Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.”
“Like me, Marilyn Monroe had suffered at the hands of some not very nice men. She was used, unappreciated and struggled to find herself. She worked her way up in Hollywood with stars in her eyes and a kind heart, but found that Hollywood wasn't always as kind in return. She may have been publicly adored, idolized and lusted after, but she felt alone and trapped.”
“Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.”
“Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.”
“Like medicine, truth could be used as a poison by someone cunning enough.”
Source: A Skinful of Shadows
“Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be readily identified as a fraud or a lie or an illusion... The perniciousness of the anti-Communist ideology of the Truman Doctrine arises not from any patent falsehood but from its distortion and simplification of reality, from its universalization and its elevation to the status of a revealed truth.”
“Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.”
“Like melting ice, melt within to purify yourself and to gain the power of purity and humility.”
“Like memories in cold decay,
Transmissions echoing away,
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky..”
“Like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.”
Source: Astrid and Veronika
“Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.”
Source: The Association of Small Bombs
“Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.”
Source: Character
“Like mercy from heaven's gate, there's a freedom in your arms that carries me through. I need you.”
“Like metaphor, paradox as a habit of mind preserves us from simplistic linearity and literalism and keeps us attentive to the complex ways in which, so often, the opposite is also true. This habit of mind is deeply biblical; indeed, to listen for the uses of paradox in Jesus’ recorded teachings is to recognize how it always points us to a higher plane of understanding. To grasp paradox is a prerequisite not only for fathoming spiritual truths (and every spiritual tradition resorts to paradox to get at what is true as if there is no more direct route to truth), but also for thinking complexly and compassionately about this-worldly issues that affect us daily: how the rich may be poor; how power is a form of vulnerability; how saying no may be a way of saying yes.”
Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies