L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like the wines in those cedar, She never ages an inch, For the time ages in place of her, And so the musk ever present in the garden…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“Like the wise saying goes, “Calm is trust in action.”
Source: Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life
“Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.”
Source: Summaries of Thought
“Like the words were birds and while they were printed in the book those birds were stuck, caged. It was only when he read them that they flew.”
Source: We Were Wolves
“Like the worthless dogs that are his countrymen, my husband believed that his penis was wasted if he was faithful to just one woman. - At the Sound of the Last Post”
Source: An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
“Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until the appointed day where their hearts were to be carved from their chests, journalistic subjects know all too well what awaits them when the days of wine and roses — the days of interviews — are over. And still they say yes when a journalist calls, and still they are astonished when they see the flash of the knife.”
“Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.'
'No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.”
“Like their mother, Honor Sparrow, dead now for twenty-some years- gone on the very day her youngest daughter, Impatiens, arrived- the sisters had all green thumbs. It was ordained, really. They had each been named after a botanical, mostly flowers, and as their mother kept producing girls, the names became slightly ridiculous. But Honor was a keen gardener and in darkest winter, calling her daughter's names reminded her that spring would come again. For months after her death the older girls hated their names and all they recalled for them. By the time they founded the Sparrow Sisters Nursery, though, each thoroughly embraced their names as the sign they were.”
Source: The Sparrow Sisters
“Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.”
“Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.”
“Like their wedding night, he quickly brought her passion back to life, and she was suddenly afraid he'd find his release and leave her wanting again as he had then. But even as she had that worry, he raised himself up on his knees, lifted her hips to the angle he wanted with one hand and then began to caress her above where they were joined with the other as he continued to thrust into her.
Conall watched her the whole time, his eyes moving over her jiggling breasts and then to her face as she twisted her head on the ground. Claray had the brief thought that she should be embarrassed, but was too wrapped up in the sensations he was causing in her to care, and then she cried out with her release, and Conall gave one last hard thrust, burying himself deep inside her as his shout of pleasure joined hers.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.”
Source: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
“Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.”
“Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.”
Source: Justify My Thug
“Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings”
“Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.”
“Like thick and tangled hair
Of Magdalenes half-crazed.”
Source: Rosary
“Like this cake. It’s really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)”
“Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?”
“Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Like This
If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this.
When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,
Like this.
If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is,
or what "God’s fragrance" means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.
Like this.
When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.
Like this.
If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.
Like this. Like this.
When someone asks what it means
to "die for love," point
here.
If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.
This tall.
The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.
Like this.
When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.
Like this.
I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret.
Like this.
When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.
Like this.
How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?
Huuuuu.
How did Jacob’s sight return?
Huuuu.
A little wind cleans the eyes.
Like this.
When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he’ll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprise us
Like this.”
“Like this life is one grand test and if we grow up wrong, then we'll end up as Cast-Out Susans."
Her mouth pinched at the idea. That week, Indigo and I had finished rereading The Chronicles of Narnia and were once again obsessed with Susan Pevensie. A queen locked out of the real she'd once ruled, exiled for the crime of growing up.
Susan Pevensie was our nightmare.”
Source: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“Like this you are powerful. Learn what it is to command the attention of a god.”
Source: Hemlock
“Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.”
“Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.”
“Like those before him, he holds on to the hope of a miracle. He doesn't realise that, to them, he is not human. He is an everyday, ten-a-penny object. And it doesn't really matter how carelessly you treat an everyday object, because if it breaks, it is easily replaced. That's what will happen to him. It might take them weeks or months, but eventually, another one just like him will come along. One always does.”
Source: Keep It in the Family
“Like those before him, he holds on to the hops of a miracle. He doesn't realise that, to them, he is not human. He is an everyday, ten-a-penny object. And it doesn't really matter how carelessly you treat an everyday object, because if it breaks, it is easily replaced. That's what will happen to him. It might take them weeks or months, but eventually, another one just like him will come along. One always does.”
Source: Keep It in the Family
“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.”
“Like those dreaded dinner party words 'Longtime Companion' or "Partner.' Sometimes I just want to scream, 'is she your wife or is she your mistress? Please clarify the nature of your bloody relationship!”
Source: Tabou: Sylvie
“Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.”
“Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.”
“Like those moments when you told us that you were tired and wanted to go. Was there any notice from heaven?”
Source: Death of a Loved One In the Time of Pandemic
“Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.”
“Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.”
“Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.”
“Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.”
Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…
“Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore... . Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver.”
“Like time suspended,
a wound unmended--
you and I.
We had no ending,
no said goodbye;
For all my life,
I'll wonder why.”
Source: Love & Misadventure
“Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.”
“Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.”
Source: The diaries of Franz Kafka
“Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.”
“Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.”
“Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.”
“Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”
Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness