L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)
“Like the sun and the moon
I loved her.
Saint Avery.
Until death and beyond.”
Source: Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection
“Like the sun and the moon loved each other,
Like the sky loved the stars,
The sun and the moon couldn't shine together and the sky couldn't have stars forever.”
“Like the sun, start each day with a smile.”
“Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.”
“Like the sun you are to me,
you bring me warmth, you bring me joy,
every day with you I’m free,
like of purest light a ray…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.”
“Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.”
“Like the sunset at the end of a glorious day, beauty is to be found at the cusp of darkness.”
Source: The Best of the Worst News: Tales of Inspiration from Around the World and My Life with ALS
“Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while you play Just as ol' river keeps the fishes And little stars keep silver wishes Just as the ocean keeps the blue I will stand here close to you. When all around is dark and deep When them ol' shadows slowly creep Even when you're fast asleep It's you I'll keep, it's you I'll keep No need to cry, no need to fear I will always be right here. I will always be right here.”
Source: The Underneath
“Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.”
“Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.”
“Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.”
“Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you”
Source: Change of Heart: A Novel
“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”
“Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.”
Source: Delights and Prejudices
“Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller
“Like the time JTC sent me an invitation to MaryEllen Marini’s costume party, which might have been okay if I was actually invited to her party, and it had been a costume party.”
Source: Lost in Paris
“Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.”
Source: Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.”
“Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.”
“Like the turtle's shell, the sense of self serves as a shield against stimulation and as a burden which limits mobility into possibly dangerous areas. The turtle rarely has to think about what's on the other side of his shell; whatever it is, it can't hurt him, can't even touch him. So, too, adults insist on the shell of a consistent self for themselves and their children and appreciate turtles for friends; they wish to be protected from being hurt or touched or confused or having to think. If a man can rely on consistency, he can afford not to notice people after the first few times. But I imagined a world in which each individual might be about to play the lover, the benefactor, the sponger, the attacker, the friend: and once known as one of the next day he might yet be anything. Would we pay attention to this person? Would life be boring? Would life be livable? I saw then clearly for the first time that the fear of failure keeps us huddled in the cave of self - a group of behavior patterns we have mastered and have no intention of risking failure by abandoning.”
Source: The Dice Man
“Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.”
“Like the two best men I know thinking I’m worth making space for in their hearts isn’t the biggest honor of my life.”
Source: Secret Service
“Like the umbrella in a sunny day or rainy day, like the armored or the bulletproof in a gunpoint”
“Like the universe is,
A giant ocean of darkness having infinite little stars illuminating light at different angles,
Like we are,
A giant universe of our own, with billions of stars hidden inside.”
“Like the usurpers in the Italian Renaissance, they seek to gloss over the illegitimacy of their rô1e by offering tangible advantages and making a fine show; that explains their economic liberalism and their patronage of the arts. They employ art not merely as a means to fame and a propaganda instrument but also as an opiate to soothe the opposition. The fact that their art policy is often accompanied by a true love and understanding of art does not affect its social basis. The courts of the Tyrants are the most important cultural centres of the age and its greatest repositories of artistic production [...] Yet in spite of this activity at the courts, the art of the age of the Tyrants is not entirely a product of the court; the rationalistic and individualistic spirit of the age hindered the development of that solemn pageantry and those conventional forms which are characteristic of a court style. The only features in this art that we can ascribe to the court are its joy in the senses, its refined intellectuality, and its somewhat artificial elegance of expression—all features to be found in the older Ionian tradition but developed to a still higher degree at the courts of the Tyrants.”
Source: The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
“Like the vacationer who returns to a beloved summer house year after year, the addicted reader opens book three or four or eleven in a given series and is thoroughly at home in the locale—its by now familiar native characters, the verbal shrubbery and the narrative floorboards that occasionally creak.”
Source: Down the Rabbit Hole; Adventures and Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature
“Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
So Man, declining always, disappears
In the weak circles of increasing years;
And his short tumults of themselves compose,
While flowing Time above his head does close.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author
“Like the vast majority of Americans, I've opposed same-sex marriage, but I've also opposed unjust discrimination against anyone, for racial or religious reasons, or for sexual preference. Americans are a tolerant, generous, and kind people. We all oppose bigotry and disparagement. But the debate over same-sex marriage is not a debate over tolerance. It is a debate about the purpose of the institution of marriage and it is a debate about activist judges who make up the law rather than interpret the law.”
“Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.”
“Like the Velveteen Rabbit of Margery Williams's perennially best-selling children's book, plush makers are animated by the prospect of their creations becoming the first thing a child loves and values.”
Source: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
“Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition.”
Source: Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
“Like the vibrant threads of a Digital Tapestry, Our strategies weave together the essence of Bangladesh's culture and the power of technology, creating a symphony of success in the realm of Digital Marketing.”
Source: Digital Marketing Strategies for Bangladeshi Market: Navigating the Digital Frontier in Bangladesh
“Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life. Our home port is the celestial kingdom of God. Our purpose is to steer an undeviating course in that direction. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: Chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.”
“Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“Like the water goes up as vapour and comes down as water again, you leave the old body and take the new body for your soul”
“Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot have it all, or want it all. In its abundance it survives our thirst. In the evening we come down to the shore to drink our fill, and sleep, while it flows through the regions of the dark. It does not hold us, except we keep returning to its rich waters thirsty. We enter, willing to die, into the commonwealth of its joy.”
Source: A Country of Marriage: Poems
“like the waterfall, let things flow as they need to be, fall where they need to go...then listen to its rhythmic silence, and fall into its peaceful melody”
“Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.”
Source: The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English
“Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.”
Source: In Cold Blood
“Like the waves of the ocean, they do not disappear. When one goes away, another one appears. Good women make life an amazing wonder.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.”
Source: The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting
“Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.”
“Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects.”
“Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.”