L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.”
Source: The Dramatic Works
“Like the line of love, I thought. Once crossed you can't go back. Like the line between past and future. Or maybe really the line between past and now. The now my father spoke of. When I raced ... I would cross the line and there was no more thinking about what was going to be because it was. It happened that fast.”
“Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.”
“Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.”
“Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life”
“Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.”
“Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“Like the man said, can happiness buy money?”
“Like the man says, there's no problems, only solutions.”
“Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best.”
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
“Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.”
Source: Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence
“Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.”
Source: The Chains That You Refuse
“Like the monetarist Milton Friedman, Keynes looked to price stability as a way to shore up classical economic thinking. For the most part, he believed, laissez-faire economics worked. Supply and demand did bring society to a prosperous equilibrium. They just needed a few pieces of basic economic architecture to work: property rights, the rule of law, and price stability. But unlike Friedman, Keynes had arrived at monetarism as a creative way to expand the power of the state to fight the uncertainties and anxieties of postwar life.”
Source: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money AND Essays In Persuasion
“Like the moon
I have learned
to be beautiful
in darkness.”
Source: The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse
“Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.”
“Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
Source: Pierrot & Columbine
“Like the moon traveling through the beautiful night sky, we have the capacity for space and freedom no matter where we are.”
Source: A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles
“Like the moon, you're only good and visible a few days a month. Exerting influence, pulling up whitecaps. The rest of time falling away, cut up into parts and nobody knows where you are.”
Source: The Colossus of New York
“Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange?”
Source: The Hours: A Novel
“Like the most beautiful treasure I have ever seen, she was hidden in the depths of the ocean, waiting for someone to pull her out.”
“Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.”
“Like the mouse creeping out of the scarlet crack,
the sunset gnaws hungrily the electric
cheese of the outskirts, erected
by those who clearly trust their knack
for surviving everything: by termites.
Warehouses, surgeries. Having measured
there the proximity of the desert,
the cinnamon-tinted earth waylays its
horizontality in the fake
pyramids, porticoes, rooftops' ripple,
as the train creeps knowingly, like a snake,
to the capital's only nipple.”
Source: To Urania: Poems
“Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.”
Source: Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
“Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.”
Source: An Island Garden
“Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.”
Source: An Island Garden
“Like the Mykonians, Perikles,
you drink our unmixed wine
and pay for nothing.
You broke into this party, uninvited,
and act as if among old friends.
Your stomach has tricked the brains in your skull
and now you are shameless.”
“Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.”
“Like
the night mist twining itself about the hills and hollows of the land, he
enfolded her then, his mouth softly fierce upon her lips, her breasts, her
belly as he led her up a wending mountain path of the Northland, past fairy
rings and elfin
trees to a place where Thor's hammer, Mjöllnir, split the heavens asunder, and
Rhowenna knew she soared higher than the gods in Asgard before floating gently
back to earth, to drift like a swan upon a wild Northland mere”
Source: Swan Road
“Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.”
Source: Outrage
“Like the number nine
eternity is forever mine”
“Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.”
“Like the ocean, we move. We do not stand still. Every moment is a tide in which we frolic. I stand before time, not to wonder but to wander.”
“Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.”
“Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.”
Source: The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered
“Like the origin of the Universe, those “ghosts” were another great unsolved mystery.”
Source: Lorac
“Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from the hub, each one a flat lattice of struts twenty-five kilometers long, made from the toughest steelsilicon fibers the Commonwealth knew how to manufacture. Twenty-three kilometers of them were covered by an ultra-thin silvered foil, giving a total surface area of over one thousand eight hundred square kilometers for the solar wind to impact on. Even in an ordinary solar system environment that would have produced a considerable torque. In the Half Way system the stormrider was positioned at the Lagrange point between the red star and its neutron companion, right in the middle of the plasma current, where the ion density was orders of magnitude thicker than any normal solar wind. The power the stormrider produced when it was in the thick of the flow was enough to operate the wormhole generator. But it couldn’t simply sit at the Lagrange point producing electricity continuously; that would have been too much like perpetual motion. As the waves of plasma pushed against it, they exerted an unremitting pressure on the blades that blew the stormrider away from the Lagrange point out toward the neutron star. So for five hours the two sets of blades would turn in opposite directions, generating electricity for the Port Evergreen wormhole that was delivered via a zero-width wormhole. The stormrider also stored some of the power, so that at the end of the five hours when it was out of alignment, it had enough of a reserve to fire its onboard thrusters, moving itself even farther out of the main plasma stream where the pressure was reduced. From there it chased a simple fifteen-hour loop back around through open space to the Lagrange point, where the cycle would begin again.”
Source: Judas Unchained
“Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.”
“Like the other faithful men who stayed in Israel, Boaz endured the famine. Long before our birth, millions faced tragedies—without a word—because they busied themselves with solutions.
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 46”
Source: Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material
“Like the other postmodern Theories, queer Theory is a political project, and its aim is to disrupt any expectations that people should fit into a binary position with regard to sex or gender, and to undermine any assumptions that sex or gender are related to or dictate sexuality.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“Like the others though,[Donald] Trump thrives when he has a clear enemy.”
“Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a kid.”
“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.”
Source: Watership Down
“Like the paint cans in the basement, the file cabinets in the garage, the rusted push-mower in the shed off the porch— Goody lived in the corners, the creases, the tucked-away parts of their house and their lives. They never talked about it, but they knew. To talk about it was to admit it was there.”
Source: Attachments
“Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.”
“Like the past, the future is merely an idea; a mere thought.”
“Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.”
Source: Sexual suicide
“Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their own idols to represent God until Jesus returns. The religion of fundamentalism is idolatry.”
“Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist.”