L Quotes
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“Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.”
Source: Instant health and happiness boosters: 365 suggestions to lift your spirit
“Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.”
Source: The Quality of Mercy
“Like so many other things in the previous year, my politics had also been retooled by maternity. I began to suspect that modern feminism had gotten it at least partly wrong. . . . In devaluing the home and the vast range of domestic work--childrearing included--and in fighting a fight largely for the right to work outside the home, the modern feminist movement ignored a singular power already available to women and, maybe more important, to the collective imagination. Rather than fighting to re-invent the home, or to effect a real transformation of values, or to legitimize and legalize the domestic and childrearing work that so many women engage in--which is necessary to support any mother's work outside the home--we have found it easier to map power where it already existed. Is this really my only choice? Between the intense demands of an academic career (supported by full-time childcare) and the mind-deadening contemplation of Cheerios?”
Source: A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood
“Like so many others my story begins with that same old line…. ‘So anyway, there was this guy….’ Until one day…. there wasn’t.
And nothing was ever the same after that….”
“Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.”
“Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life”
“Like so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter. Sometimes you lose your grip on one of them and it falls and smashes to piece, and you shrug and say to yourself, what a pity. Then you reach for the cup that you use every day, one that you love and use so often that as you stretch out your hand it is already making the shape that fits its curve. You are certain that yesterday it was in its proper place, but now there is nothing. Just air. You have lost something that was so familiar, so much a part of your life that you were not even looking for it. Just expecting it to be there, as always.”
Source: Iris & Ruby
“Like so many sons and daughters before and after him, Henry had returned home feeling mature and confident only to be reduced to adolescence in a matter of hours.”
Source: The Boy Who Felt Too Much: How a renowned neuroscientist and his son changed our view of autism forever
“Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.”
“Like so many things around happiness, honesty is simple, if not always easy.”
Source: The New Be-Attitudes: 68 Ways to Shift Your Life from Crappy ...to Happy!
“Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.”
Source: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.”
Source: The Magnificent Ambersons
“Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.”
“Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.”
“Like so much else, people have also misunderstood the place of love in life, they have made it into play and pleasure because they thought that play and pleasure were more blissful than work; but there is nothing happier than work, and love, just because it is the extreme happiness, can be nothing else but work.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little.”
Source: The Wrong Type of Values
“Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think one of life’s most satisfying accomplishments for my wife and me is to have lived long enough to see our children become good friends.”
“Like social media profile, we also have a 'thought profile' in our mind which has information about who we think we are, and how we want others to see us.
Profiles are talking with each other, not real people. This all human chattering is so mechanical and tasteless that we have to add our own spice of passion and imagination to make it worth consuming.”
“Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.”
“Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens.”
Source: The Roots of American Order
“Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.”
“Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.”
Source: The Mouse on the Mile
“Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.”
“Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'”
“Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.”
Source: Requiem for a Wren
“Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.”
“Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.”
Source: Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
“Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.”
“Like some overcrowded party, no-one had noticed her arrival, and no-one would notice if she left.”
Source: One Day
“Like some people, some things are like oil and frozen water.”
“Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to give a warning that the man who was even now preparing to assume the leadership of Thule would prove himself to be a false prophet. Assuming total power over the nation, he would be responsible one day for reducing the whole of Germany to rubble and its people to a defeat and moreal degradation hitherto unknown to history.”
Source: The Spear of Destiny
“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
Source: The Comedians
“Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.”
“like someone who obsessively collects paintings of hoarders”
Source: The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats
“Like something from Tolstoy, isn't it?" he remarked.
Julian looked over his shoulder, and I was startled to see that there was real delight on his face.”
Source: The Secret History
“Like something straight out of a B-grade horror film, a single arm shot up from the dirt, reaching and grabbing as it clawed its way forth from its earthen prison. Ash and Trent watched the monster struggle in silence for at least ten minutes, occasionally exchanging glances. Finally, after all the writhing, the zombie emerged. It stumbled out of its grave covered in dirt and gave an annoyed-sounding groan.”
Source: Midnight Hunter
“Like song or dance, poetry needs to be experienced in performance before it can be fully understood.”
Source: Poetry as Enchantment
“Like Spain, I am bound to the past.”
Source: Cities of the Red Night: A Novel
“Like sparks of light bursting from the earth, Peaches and her spirit animal dove up from the root system all at once, then ran over and through the leaves on the forest canopy, as water-worn rocks appeared beneath their feet the closer they got to the creek. A moment or so later, they were diving underneath the fast current of the shallow water, spiraling downward toward a bright beam of light emanating from the very bottom of the creek.”
Source: Moments to Spare
“Like special fungus, your love will grow in strange places”
Source: Miss Fortune Cookie
“Like species, couples die out or evolve.”
Source: My Mother's Body
“Like spirituality, insanity frees us from the addiction to happiness.”
“Like sports athletes when they are “in the flow,” you can create a day (everyday) that is full of positive things.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."”
Source: Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
“Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.”
“Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!”
“Like stem-cell research, another potentially transformative force for good, free trade is held in check largely by the stupid, the ignorant, and the superstitious.”
Source: The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
“Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.”
Source: The Night Circus
“Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery.”
Source: Notes from a Young Black Chef