L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.”
“Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.”
“Like the bees, we are - only looking for sweet honey in the flowers, we are -
sensitive and at the same time carefully;
but we never destroy them.”
“Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.”
Source: Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections
“Like the Bible says. A child should be leader of them all, and to be led by that kind of innocence. Didnt Jesus say bring on the children? Be like the children. Not childish, but child-like. That kind of innocence.”
“Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.”
Source: Summer of my German soldier
“Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.”
“Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.”
“Like the Biblical Israelites, Americans who are afraid want to put their trust in actors who can effectively protect them, but rather than turning solely to the Lord, modern citizens might choose to put their trust in government experts.”
Source: Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World
“like the big bed it was enclosed in a permanent canopy of heavy netting. Mosquitoes were the least of the creatures this net was intended to exclude; its absence, at any time, night or day, would have been an invitation for snakes and scorpions to make their way between the sheets. In a hut by the pond a woman was even said to have found a large dead fish in her bed. This was a koimachh, or tree perch, a species known to be able to manipulate its spiny fins in such a way as to drag itself overland for short distances. It had found its way into the bed only to suffocate on the mattress.”
Source: The hungry tide
“Like the birds I will fly.”
Source: The Girl Who Could Fly
“Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?”
“Like the Birth Of Venus, the song [Yello "oh, Yeah"] denotes the birth of the bro. The song just reminds me of bros looking out over lowered Ray-Bans. It birthed a negative sexual revolution. I was going to a lot of bondage clubs at the time and they did play this song. The song I associate more is that horrible Enigma song with the Gregorian chant. There's something good buried in that song and I might not hate it as much if I hadn't been a sex worker.”
“Like the blind man said as he wandered into a cannibal village . . .
“Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue!”
“Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.”
“Like the brain's command center, the board provides the highest level of cognitive function for the organization. They are the "big picture" thinkers, setting strategic direction, overseeing management, and representing the interests of shareholders and stakeholders.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.”
Source: The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition
“Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.”
“Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.”
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
“Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.”
Source: Beginnings
“Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.”
“Like the burning of the ancient library at Alexandria or the supremely ignorant incineration of stacks of invaluable Mayan codices, the loss of knowledge we are experiencing as the last of the traditional elders pass from this physical plane of existence without heirs to their knowledge- as well as the very environment in which sacred plants grow- is a tragedy occurring right now as you read these lines, one that could well be beyond redemption.”
Source: Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
“Like the butterfly, you will also go through stages of change, rebirth, and new beginnings for transformation and renewal. Use these changes to create a clarity of purpose for a personal renaissance. Break out of your comfort zone, shed old layers, and stretch in your potential to become your best self. Be free of outdated limitations, experience rebirth and take flight.”
“Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.”
“Like the cat who finds her way back home over a thousand miles, like the dog who waits for his master to arrive on the train that never comes, like the one who keeps a vigil at her master’s grave until she too can cross the bridge, some people and their pets are woven together by threads of life and they cannot, and will not, for long be separated.”
“Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.”
“Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.”
Source: Another Mexico
“Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.”
“Like the children we will never ever cease to be.”
“Like the chosen Shulamite, there will be times when you too will be faced with crude assaults on your virtue, or with solicitations that will be naked attempts to cheapen your marriage. Being polite is one thing, but there comes a time. Even the peace-loving Jesus took a rope to those who disregarded the boundaries of his Father's house. Your house has boundaries too. Do what you must.
pg 67”
Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“Like the clay on the wheel, we must be willing to change, sometimes drastically, in order to remain centered in Christ.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“Like the clay that has been recycled and reclaimed, our lives have the capacity for change spiritually.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.”
“Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.”
Source: On photography
“Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.”
“Like the conquistadores of my cultural history, Anton took me into his arms, along with everything I represented, including my dark skin, what he called my 'Japanese eyes,' and colonized me...”
Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official
“Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light.”
“Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.”
“Like the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, postmodernism seeks to institutionalize dishonesty as a legitimate school of thought. The idea of truth as the ultimate goal of the intellectual is discarded. In its place, scholars are asked to pursue political objectives--so long as those political objectives are the 'correct' ones. Postmodernism is not fringe within the community of scholars. It is central. This tells us a great deal about the life of the mind today. Peruse any university course catalogue, and you find names like Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes. Scour the footnotes of scholarly books and journals and a similar story unfolds. With the primacy of philosophies--postmodernism, Critical Theory, and even the right-leaning Straussianism--that exalt dishonesty in the service of supposedly noble causes, is it at all surprising that liars like Alfred Kinsey, Rigoberta Menchu, Alger Hiss, and Margaret Sanger have achieved a venerated status among the intellectuals?”
Source: Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas
“Like the crocodile, he strikes always at the weakest spot.”
Source: Burmese Days
“Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.”
“Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service”
Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)
“Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.”
Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!”
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
“Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.”
“Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.”