L Quotes
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“Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.”
“Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.”
“Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.”
“Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?”
Source: The Wolf in the Whale
“Like you? I go out of here every morning… bust my butt…putting up with them crackers everyday…cause I like you? You about the biggest fool I ever saw. It’s my JOB. It’s my RESPONSIBILITY! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family. You live in my house… sleep on my bed clothes…fill you belly up with my food… cause you my son. You my flesh and blood. Not ‘cause I like you! Cause it’s my duty to take care of you. I OWE a responsibility to you! Let’s get this straight right here… before it go along any further… I ain’t got to like you. Mr. Rand don’t five me money come payday cause he likes me. He gives me cause he OWE me. I done give you everything I had to give you. I gave you your life! Me and your mama worked that out between us. And liking your black ass wasn’t part of the bargain. Don’t try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you. You understand what I’m saying, boy?”
- August Wilson, Fences, 1986.”
Source: Fences
“Like you, I know people who drink, people who do drugs, and bosses who have tantrums and treat their subordinates like dirt. They all have good jobs. Were they to become homeless, some of them would surely also become 'alcoholics,' 'addicts,' or 'mentally ill.”
Source: Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
“Like you need two hands to clap, employees and organizations both need to be serious for learning to work.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you
catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an
instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But
if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just
barely for a few moments.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Like, you're the type who can figure out what a girl wants and then make it happen. You don't make a big deal out of it; you just pay attention and then act on what you see.”
Source: The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 3
“Like you said, humans are weak. We die easily. But no matter how weak we are, even if we're being chopped to bits or stabbed to death, we still want to live.”
Source: Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1
“Like you said, I am your strongest creation, which means I was built to never stop," Ever growls as his fists brighten.”
Source: Ever: The Return
“Like you trust a doctor to treat you or your loved ones, trust the universe. There are energies that can take care of your things and people better than you can.”
“Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.”
“Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.”
“Like your body breathes air, your mind breathes thoughts. You feel depressed when your mind forgets to fully breathe out. Stretch your mind regularly. Contemplate who you are in this infinite cosmos.”
“Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.”
“Like your booty don't stink.”
“Like your fancied god up there, my pal up nowhere, Mr. NOT, says if you do not prostrate and accept me as your latest and newest messiah, he will so kick your butt that you will neither be in hell nor in heaven but nowhere, like your fancied pal up there.”
“Like your father," she said, and those three words wrap around me like armor.”
Source: The Near Witch
“Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.”
“Like your job. Love your wife.”
“Like your marriage, everything in the universe is trying to find its orbit. In the midst of this constant readjustment, both partners should be able to go to bed knowing that neither one is going to abandon a wounded, or struggling marriage. There is a comforting reassurance being with someone who keeps their promise.
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Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.”
Source: Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
“Like your 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 Zidane I want to inspire the kids”
“Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.”
Source: Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”
Source: The Waves
“Like, a lot of people I know are wanting to get back to the Earth in some way and not raise their kids in this world of Apps and Internet all the time. I grew up on a river in New Jersey and I was in fantasy land. I could do anything.”
“Like, a song could be really tricky and intricate and be really intellectually stimulating, but I don't think that's the song that that I'm going to throw on 80% of the time. The songs that I really want to listen to are the ones that I can really feel.”
“Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.”
“Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going "Ha-ha."”
“Like, for example, way back then,[George W.] Bush could have passed immigration reform, just like [Barack] Obama could have when he first came in. And both of them passed on it, so now they leave it for now.”
“Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'”
“Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.”
“Like, I mean I don't even know why you girls bother at this point. Like give it up, it's me. I win and you lose.”
“Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.”
“Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?”
“Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.”
“Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.”
“Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.”
“Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.”
“Like, in retrospect, this whole Mini-Album is about itself, and the process of letting go of the fear of what people will think about the music or of me or whatever and just putting it out there. But none of that was intentional at all.”
“Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.”
“Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.”
“Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'”
“Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.”
“Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.”
“Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.”
Source: Fangirl
“Like, she had a caterer, she had wardrobe people, she had two makeup artists... I mean, we have makeup and we have wardrobe, but Felicia [Day] was, like, on it. She had two cameras operating, sets, extras everywhere. It was unbelievable. I don't know what her budget was or is, but she had sponsors for her show, and we don't have a sponsor yet, so basically, the difference is, our moms make our costumes.”
“Like, shopping, in a way, has the same dynamic as smoking. Because what happens in shopping is, you're bored, you're frustrated, you have this negative emotion and instead of letting the emotion play out, be honest, confronting it, and letting yourself feel pain, you go buy something that takes you out of yourself and feels fun and exciting. But you have to go back to yourself.”