L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain.”
Source: New Moon
“Like we were saying, the fact that the relationships on the show are love-based, and in the sense that I wasn't aware of how special it was in contrast to a lot of the other TV shows that are on right now. It was our audience members that pointed out the love that you see in the show is special.”
“Like wealth discrepancies, mortality rates provide a rough indication of relative freedom, and when social classes die at radically different rates from one another, some are obviously less free. An important part of freedom is not having to make sacrifices for people who don't have to make sacrifices for you.”
Source: Freedom
“Like Wendy, John, and Michael Darling on the night Peter Pan taught them how to fly - I think one happy thought. In my pocket, I have a knife.”
Source: The Kingdom
“Like what?” he said, giving me a sideways glance, slipping in the process.
“Saying that they’re lucky.”
Source: Let It Snow
“Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.”
“Like what you feel do you? Because there is more of me that’s just as hard you know?”
Source: Stoned
“Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody.”
“Like what you see?”
“Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.”
“Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.”
“Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!”
“Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.”
“Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.”
“Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?”
Source: Killing Floor
“Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.”
“Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.”
“Like when you have the right title for something you're writing and you get lost - you can always go back to the title and go, "Yeah, that's what this is about."”
“Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn't feel bad about that. It's not your bear.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.”
“Like when you scrape your knee and you get a scar, but then the scar fades so much that no one can see it but you. But you know where it is. Cuz you remember what caused it. And no matter how hard you try, you can never forget how bad it hurt when it first happened.”
“Like when you see a celebrity in a cafe and instinctively burst out, "Oh, hi there!" before you realize that your brain has had time to tell you, "Hey, that's probably someone you know, say hi!" but not, "No wait, it's just that guy from the TV!" Because your brain likes to make you look like an idiot.”
Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.”
“Like, where's he really from?"
Eden crumples the napkin in her fist, her skin prickling. "Excuse me?"
"Oh, you know what I mean. Is he Korean or Japanese?"
A flicker of annoyance makes Eden work her jaw. "What's it matter?"
"He just looks so much like that guy from that K-pop group." She snaps her fingers, straining her two brain cells for a name. "Taehung? Or Mingyu? I guess it would be alright if he's Chinese, too, but..."
"You need to piss off," Eden snaps, slowly rising from her seat. "Right now."
"What's your problem?"
"Look, I'm going to give you the benefit of a doubt here and say that you're clearly too sauced to be thinking straight, but what you're saying is... Yeah, just ew."
"I just want to know more about him."
"Then how about asking for his name first?"
"You're making this weird."
"You handled that all on your own when you asked where he was really from.”
Source: Knives, Seasoning, & A Dash of Love
“Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.”
Source: The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
“Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.”
Source: No Safe Spaces
“Like wildflowers bloom, so does a soul, opening through the sound of thunder, for this is the flower, fierce in opening amid the winds of the wild.”
“Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”
“Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life, and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness.”
“Like wind and fire,
water and soil,
we used one another,
to grow and blossom.
Love was a dream,
elusive as were we.”
Source: Life is a Remembrance
“Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.”
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them”
Source: A Sand County Almanac
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.”
“Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.”
“Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.”
“Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!”
“Like with pure Capitalism — in a Permaculture Economy, trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit and not by the state. This is essential to the success of an economic ecosystem.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“Like Woody Allen actually does this a lot in his movies, its kind of called magical realism where he has just kind of an everyday, these kind of everyday experiences and all the sudden something magical or supernatural will come into to and I just, I love that and I think everybody can kind of - everybody wants that at some point in their life.”
“Like words written in the sand taken away by waves
Thousands of years of culture discovered in lost caves
Climbing to a mountain at it's highest peak
Out of no where strength when thought down and weak”
Source: Like A Box Of Chocolates
“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.”
“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people.”
“Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.”
“Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.”
“Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.”
“like yearning to be a swan when you were demonstrably a bird of a different feather;”
Source: The Man with the Silver Saab
“Like yeast, it’s impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one’s efforts grow and expand.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Like, yes, Olivia is kind of curvy, and Mina didn’t say it like an insult. I know it’s not an insult. But I just hate when people talk about bodies.”
Source: The Upside of Unrequited
“Like Yeshua, James is against the idea that we can just pick and choose which commandments are relevant to our lives. We have no authority to declare some commandments valid and others invalid. All of the Torah is important.”
Source: When Faith Works: Living Out the Law of Liberty According to James