L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.”
“Lister saw the vast importance of the discoveries of Pasteur. He saw it because he was watching on the heights, and he was watching there alone.”
“Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?”
“Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.”
“Listing What You Have: Internalize the attitude that regardless of how many things you do not have, you can still be happy and grateful if you keep your focus on what you do have. Make a list of possessions, talents, and good qualities you have and whenever you catch yourself becoming obsessed with something you lack, review your list.”
“Listing your parents as your emergency contact is the saddest reminder that you are single.”
Source: The Rudman Conjecture on Quantum Entanglement
“Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.”
“Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.”
Source: David Copperfield: Classic English Literature
“Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he'll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had.”
“Lists are a form of power.”
“Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.”
“Lists are how I parse and manage the world.”
“Lists have always implied social order.”
“Lists help us manage the chaos of our lives—to impose order, if only for a moment. Writing a list clears the mind. … Once everything is written down, it’s easier to see which tasks are important and in what order to tackle them. Tasks that seem overwhelming look easier when reduced to mere lines on paper.”
“Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.”
“Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.”
“Lists procreate; they give rise to other lists. Nell wonders if there's a special therapy for excessive list-making. But if the two of them don't make lists, how will they remember what they need? Anyway, they like crossing things off. It makes them feel that they are getting somewhere.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“Lists simplify, clarify, edify.”
Source: The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every
“Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.”
“Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.”
“Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.”
“Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.”
Source: Stray
“Lit up the lamps of joy; let there be smiles.”
Source: You By You
“Lita on the other hand, she's rated NC-17, which means No Cold sores in 17 days.”
“Lita wait! I need advice on taking 5 guys at once!”
“LITANI MAKHLUK DI DALAM PERUT PELANTANG
(Dongeng Singkat Tentang Seekor Anjing yang Mimpi Menjadi Mikropon,
dan Sebuah Mikropon yang Diam-diam Ingin Menjadi Anjing)
I. Retakan Kausa
Dari atap takdir yang menggigil, hujan turun bukan sebagai air,
melainkan sebagai serpih ingatan yang ditinggalkan generasi
yang percaya bahwa pengeras suara lebih suci daripada detak jantung sendiri.
Angin menghafal nama-nama yang diteriakkan—
tetapi kini nama-nama itu berubah menjadi bulu-bulu halus
yang mengelupas dari makhluk yang belum sempurna bentuknya.
Ia berjalan pincang, mengendus karat,
mendengarkan doa yang mendesis seperti minyak panas
dari dasar kuali.
II. Tubuh yang Menjadi Simbol dan Simbol yang Menjadi Makhluk
Di museum moralitas,
patung-patung pendosa tertawa.
Namun malam itu, satu patung retak;
dari celahnya keluar seekor anak anjing berwarna
ungu kebiruan yang terlalu pucat untuk disebut hidup.
Ia meminjam moncong dari sejarah nenek moyangnya,
meminjam telinga dari debu pendiangan,
dan meminjam suara dari mikropon yang lupa kapan ia berhenti bernyanyi.
“Biarkan aku menjadi lidahmu,” katanya,
“agar kata-kata yang kau lempar ke langit
tak lagi memantul sebagai propaganda yang kehilangan ibu.”
III. Doa dalam Dapur Penghakiman
Dalam mimpimu, ia muncul sebagai penghibur yang lelah—
alas bedaknya retak,
gincunya belepotan di pipi, kakinya gemetar,
tetapi matanya menyimpan tahapan-tahapan kesedihan
yang jauh lebih tua daripada artefak yang kau yakini suci.
Ia melihatmu mencari bayangan sendiri
di dekat api yang tak pernah benar-benar menyala,
dan tersenyum jenaka:
“Barangkali kau benci bukan pada tubuhku,
tapi pada suara yang tak berani kau sebutkan namanya.”
Mikropon itu mendengar,
dan getarannya menjadi litani—
tanpa tuduhan, tanpa penghakiman,
hanya gema dari mulut tanah yang gemetar.
IV. Wajah Luka yang Tidak Dipamerkan
Ketika kau akhirnya menyingkap wajah makhluk itu,
kulitnya mengelupas,
darahnya meletup;
ia mengalir sebagai sungai merah yang sangat panjang,
hampir seperti selendang yang menutup dunia
setiap kali manusia kelelahan menipu dirinya sendiri.
Di balik selendang itu, mikropon tua menunduk:
“Apakah ini tubuhmu? Atau tubuhku?
Atau tubuh semua kata yang tak pernah kita izinkan hidup?”
V. Jalan Sunyi yang Menganga ke Dalam Tanah
Makhluk itu—entah anjing, entah kesaksian—
tak terbang ke langit.
Ia menyelam ke lapisan bumi paling pekat,
ke lorong-lorong di mana gema doa
tak lagi memohon keselamatan
tetapi memohon untuk dikenali.
Di sana, telinganya mekar sebagai kaktus hijau berduri,
tunggal, lapar,
menunggu disentuh tetapi tak pernah mengizinkan dipetik.
VI. Nyanyian Mikropon yang Tak Lagi Menguasai Apa Pun
Di permukaan, mikropon itu masih terus bernyanyi.
Namun kini suaranya serak—
bukan karena kehilangan kuasa,
tetapi karena ia akhirnya mendengar dirinya sendiri
sebagai makhluk yang juga ingin disembuhkan.
Ia menyanyikan nama-nama
yang angin pernah hafal,
yang langit pernah kutuki,
yang bumi pernah telan:
suara-suara yang hanya ingin satu hal sederhana—
tidak menjadi yang paling benar,
tidak menjadi yang paling suci,
hanya menjadi lirih terdengar
tanpa harus menggantikan suara siapa pun.
VII. Litani Terakhir
Dan di sela-sela jeda itu,
kau mungkin menangkap bisikan:
bahwa tidak ada anjing yang benar-benar mati,
tidak ada mikropon yang benar-benar berkuasa,
tidak ada doa yang benar-benar berbohong—
hanya makhluk-makhluk yang terus belajar
menerima wujudnya
tanpa harus menutup mata kepada siapa pun
atau menyalakan api yang dapat membakar siapa saja.
Litani selesai.
Tidak ada amin.
Yang tersisa hanya gema yang mengingatkan
bahwa kebenaran—
kadang-kadang—
membutuhkan seekor anjing yang terlahir dari lumpur
dan sebuah mikropon berkarat
untuk saling menyelamatkan.
Desember 2025”
“Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty”
“Literacy in itself is no education.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”
Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.”
Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.”
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.”
Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General
“Literacy is a fundamental life skill, one that serves as a portal to knowledge and a lifetime of opportunity.”
“Literacy is a right, not a privilege.”
“literacy is at the heart of sustainable development”
“Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.”
“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn.”
“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”
“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994
“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994
“Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.”
“Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.”
“Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.”
“Literacy is the way to face your future, make your future and change your future”
“Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.”
Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General
“Literacy of letters earns you living,
Literacy of love earns you a life.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Literacy rate tells us about the section of society who can read and write, but do we have a tool which can share the stats about out how many educated illiterates we have in our society.”
Source: Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1