L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So short-lived has been the American Union, that men who saw it rise may live to see it fall.”
“Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.”
“Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.”
“Little did I know that Lincoln was an archracist who had openly expressed his disdain for Black people. He was of the opinion that Black people would be forcibly deported to Africa or anywhere else.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“Little did I know that Siddharth was not a dream but a nightmare.”
Source: Together we were
“Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.”
“Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.”
“Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.”
“Little did I know, the grief that I wasn’t acknowledging had an energy of its own and was finding nice cozy places to hide in my physical body.”
“Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!”
“Little did I realize then, I would need to steep myself in sex, immerse myself in the subject. I'd have to open my mind, return to a time when all I knew and understood was sex.”
Source: Falling Into Fire
“Little did she understand that the end of childhood comes not when a child's body changes with puberty, but when her mind is finally able to see her life through the eyes of an outsider.”
Source: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.”
“Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.
Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.”
“Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“Little did we know what lay ahead!”
“Little difference exists between gay Christian theology and gay secular humanist presuppositions, other than the use of "God-talk" in an attempt to sanctify gay sex.' The gay Christian movement is both in the world and of the world. Homoerotic behavior is ultimately a profession of atheism and a declaration of war on Western society's heterosexual norms inherited from historic Christianity. Homosexual sex is indeed a revolutionary act seeking to overthrow all constraints imposed by traditional Christianity. Christianity is the opposition, from the secular humanist perspective, and this conclusion is legitimate, for homosexual practice is antithetical to everything Scripture and the Christian tradition teach about men and women, who are created by God for each other. The gay Christian movement chooses to obscure the truth and has deluded itself into embracing the fantasy that God blesses homosexual practice.”
“little distant sounds of shut-away singing”
Source: Falling Awake
“Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author
“Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.”
“Little do women know what big ideas I have in my pants.”
“Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”
“Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.”
“Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.”
“Little dogs bite more than big dogs but they get away with it.”
“LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT (PERCY THREE) He puts his cheek against mine and makes small, expressive sounds. And when I'm awake, or awake enough he turns upside down, his four paws in the air and his eyes dark and fervent. Tell me you love me, he says. Tell me again. Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over he gets to ask it. I get to tell.”
Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Little drops of rain
Whisper of the pain
Tears of love
Lost in the days gone by.”
“Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity.”
“Little effort is needed to create a rumor, but a much greater effort must be made to deny it.”
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“Little else matters than to write good code.”
“Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
Source: The Little Engine That Could
“Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.”
“little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.”
Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated
“Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.”
“Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.”
Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings
“Little eyes watch what we do far more than little ears hear what we say. It is how we live, not how we demand they live, that has the most impact on who our children will become.”
“Little facts, little fiction - that's the secret to a good life.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things.”
“Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.”
Source: Spiritual Progress
“Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“Little Fists, what's wrong?”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.”
Source: Nausea
“Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!”
Source: Collected Poems
“Little folks become their little fate.”
Source: A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators
“Little footprints in the sand usually follow larger ones, so watch where you step.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“Little Fox!' Jacks lashed his arms against his captors as he screamed and cursed everyone in the cavern. 'Little Fox, I'm sorry.' His tortured voice echoed towards the sky.
The broken sound of it would have made Evangeline cry if she wasn't already. She wanted to tell him not to worry, she wanted to tell him again that it would be all right- but just in cast it wasn't, she called, 'I love you!”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“Little Fox, when I saw you, I thought-'
He broke off as he set her atop all the twisted sheets. Then he fisted her hair in his hand and tugged until she was looking up at him. His face had all the agony of a fallen star, broken and beautiful, with eyes so blue, the colour of everything else looked dull.
Deliberately, his gaze fell to her lips.
Her breathing turned ragged, and she wished just once that he could kiss her.
He leaned closer and gently twisted her hair, angling her head as he brought their mouths incredibly close.
'You're still bleeding.' He licked the centre of her lips, soft and agonisingly slow. His tongue felt like heaven and hell. Like everything she wanted and all she couldn't have. She had to stop herself from leaning closer, though she doubted Jacks would let her. She could feel his fingers against her scalp, holding her in place, keeping her lips just shy of his.
But maybe it was close enough. Maybe they didn't have to touch. She could live like this as long as she could live with him.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After