L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lissianna said, smacking Thomas in the arm. “What were you thinking? They don’t waltz here.”
“I was thinking I didn’t want my uncle clasping my butt, and our chests rubbing together as he stepped on my feet while trying to shuffle me around the floor,” Thomas answered dryly.”
“List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them.”
“List everything that can possibly make you win. Think and meditate upon it. Work on it until you succeed.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“list of things to heal your mood:
1) cry it. walk it. write it. scream it. dance it
out of your body.
2) if after all that
you are still
spiraling out of control
ask yourself if sinking into the mud is worth it
3) the answer is no
4) the answer is breathe
5) sip tea and feel your nervous system settle
6) you are the hero of your life
7) this feeling doesn’t have power over you
8) the universe has prepared you to handle this
9) no matter how dark it gets
the light is always on its way
10) you are the light
11) walk yourself back to where the love lives”
Source: Home Body
“Lista poikaystävän ihannepiirteistä (muistikirja, 1999): persoona ei muutu humalassa, mielellään töissä tai koulussa, oma asunto - ei varasto, rock ei saa olla ainoa tärkeä asia maailmassa, vähintään yksi pitkä suhde takana, ei spesiaalisuhdetta eksiin tai eksien sukulaisiin, omistaa mielellään kulkuneuvon tai ajokortin, pystyy puhumaan tunteistaan, ei laita viimeisiä rahojaan kaljaan, arvostaa minua ja tekemisiäni, ei liian kliininen, hemmottelee, järjestää yllätyksiä - edes joskus, hilpeä, ei synkkä, tasavertainen riitelijä, julkista hellyyttä!!!! Kunnollinen kosketus, hyvä ääni.”
Source: Veitola
“Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.”
“Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.”
Source: Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988
“Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.”
Source: The Stone Field
“Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.”
“Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
“Listen . Keep silent .
You are not gods mouthpiece.
Try to be an ear.”
“Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.”
“Listen, Alyosha," Ivan began in a resolute voice, "if I am really able to care for the sticky little leaves I shall only love them, remembering you. It's enough for me that you are somewhere here, and I shan't lose my desire for life yet. Is that enough for you?”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.”
“Listen and learn it, learn to tell it, and tell it to teach it.”
Source: A Charm of Finches
“Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use the first letter in each of those words. Mix it up between upper and lower case. Then pick two numbers that mean something to you – not dates – and stick them somewhere between the letters. Put a punctuation mark at the beginning of the password and then a symbol, like a dollar sign, at the end.”
Source: About That Night
“Listen and listen good, shitbrain. If you ever touch someone I love again, I will shove this cross down your throat and watch you choke on it. You want to know why a Prince of Hell wanted me so bad? Now you do. I’m not a nice girl. I’m a Seer. It is my job to save the people of the world from vultures like you. Now you take that back to whoever your boss is and let him come find me, if he’s stupid enough. I’ll bury you all if I have to.”
Source: The Holy Dark
“Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values.”
“Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”
“Listen and you'll be heard.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? While the soul, after all, is only a window, and the opening of the window no more difficult than the wakening from a little sleep.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“Listen as the fox slowly and deftly unbinds his whole pack of tricks—his flattery and fine words, his warm and sugary russet charm, his bold-faced blandishments. He has brought forth a spool of raw lies and spun them into a glittering web of truth to trap them all. Every last one of them.”
Source: Reynard the Fox
“Listen as the wind blows
From across the great divide
Voices trapped in yearning
Memories trapped in time”
“Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!”
Source: Family
“Listen babe scars will never go away no matter how trying chill, as it raise painful memory work on turn it into a sweet scars to put smile on your face and others instead of crying.”
“Listen, baby
Ain't no mountain high
Ain't no valley low
Ain't no river wide enough, baby
If you need me, call me
No matter where you are
No matter how far
Just call my name
I'll be there in a hurry
You don't have to worry
'Cause baby,
There ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you
Remember the day
I set you free
I told you
You could always count on me
From that day on I made a vow
I'll be there when you want me
Some way,some how
'Cause baby,
There ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you
No wind, no rain
My love is alive
Way down in my heart
Although we are miles apart
If you ever need a helping hand
I'll be there on the double
As fast as I can
Don't you know that
There ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you
Don't you know that
There ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough”
“Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything.”
“Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.”
“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Listen, Benny. If we're going to work together, there's gonna be no more of this... charm offensive you're apparently trying to wage. It's not going to work. We are coworkers, and that is it. Not allies, friends, or anything else. You'd better get it through that irritatingly symmetrical skull of yours ASAP."
He raises an eyebrow suggestively, his crooked grin kicking up. "Oh? What's the 'anything else' you speak of, Reese's Pieces? I only offered allyship---any other ideas are all yours."
A disbelieving laugh escapes me before I can stop it. "You're gonna run out of Reese's candy varieties very soon, Benzoyl Peroxide.”
Source: Love from Scratch
“Listen Bhikkhus, just as a buffalo boy recognizes each of his own buffaloes, a bhikkhu recognizes each of the essential elements of his own body. Just as a buffalo boy knows the characteristics and tendencies of each buffalo, a bhikkhu knows which actions of body, speech, and mind are worthy and which are not. Just as a buffalo boy scrubs his animals clean, a bhikkhu must cleanse his mind and body of desires, attachments, anger, and aversions.”
“Listen, bitch, the only white trash in this room is the one who slept with a married man. An old married man at that. You call my man one more name and I will knock those ridiculously high heels out from under you. So back the hell off before you end up on your ass. -Eva”
Source: Sometimes It Lasts
“Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel- or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good- and as bad- as the man who carries it. Remember that.”
“Listen, bud, you're a disembodied spirit in denial.”
Source: The Holiday Spirit
“Listen buddy, I’m not saying we have to ask permission, but we will be dealing with my kind now and my pack and it is proper protocol to let them know we are coming.”
“Listen can you hear the distance calling
Far away but will be with you soon”
“Listen carefully, Lucas Steele, because I will only say this once. I am NOT your mate, I will never be your mate, and if you ever put your hands on me again I will cut them off along with other body parts you might want to use one day. Got it?" Jacque told him with as much force as she could put behind her words.”
Source: Prince of Wolves
“Listen carefully. The answers to our deepest questions are often whispered.”
“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.”
“Listen carefully to me. Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention...There is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by out intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.”
“Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.”
“Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling her what she's not doing right? Or are you doing like Solomon-blessing, encouraging, and uplifting that woman?”
Source: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set
“Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”
“Listen carefully Usopp. For Nami's sake you can be sacrificed if necessary.”
“Listen carefully, be transparent, be responsive, be authentic, tell great stories-the qualities that would make you the hotshot at a party-and they'll make your organization a likeable one on social networks.”
Source: Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (& Other Social Networks)
“Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.”
“Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.”
“Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.”
“Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.”
“Listen, child, journeys are assigned to gods. Legends do not play a role in the universe’s fabric. But the Fates granted this responsibility to you and to no one else.”
Source: Siren Song