L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or - or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.”
“Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.”
Source: The Federalist
“Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it’s lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness—it’s still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.”
Source: One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel
“Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?”
“Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Little needs to be done to persuade people that stealing to support a gambling habit is wrong. But what about a sportsbook identifying a bettor who is trying to quit and targeting them with promotional credits? What about an app interface with limitless betting options designed to satiate bettors’ constant need for action, where one can lose multiple mortgage payments in a matter of seconds? What about an industry whose entire business model relies on a small percentage of players losing large amounts of money?”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.”
“Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty. And so by fateful chance the Negro folk-song—the rhythmic cry of the slave—stands to-day not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas. It has been neglected, it has been, and is, half despised, and above all it has been persistently mistaken and misunderstood; but notwithstanding, it still remains as the singular spiritual heritage of the nation and the greatest gift of the Negro people.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.”
“Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.”
“Little one, dignity is an overrated thing to keep between the sheets. I, for one, am not afraid to part with it in your company.”
Source: The Queen of Aessarion
“Little one, I am a man with very specific preferences, and you happen to meet all of them. Why would I go looking for something I already have?”
“If that is true, it only deepens my confusion,” she admitted, clasping her hands together to ward off the approaching sense of nervousness. “Why me? What do I have that other women lack?”
The reigh’s gaze went distant, and he grinned. “An extraordinary gift to grate on my nerves, but never quite make me go berserk.”
Source: The Queen of Aessarion
“Little opportunities should be improved.”
“Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.”
“Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.”
“Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.”
“Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.”
“Little people have changed from the 1970s to now.”
“Little people make tall claims. As being this-that avatar or messiah. Some even say they're God. Well, if they are, I'm their grand-pop.”
“Little people need to belittle.”
“Little people with big dreams are reimagining the world.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Little Pete. He’s not exactly just Astrid’s autistic brother.” He explained briefly while Toto added a chorus of “Sam believes that’s true” remarks.
“How do we get Little Pete to do anything?” Dekka asked.
“The last time Little Pete felt mortal danger he made the FAYZ,” Sam said. “He needs to be in mortal danger again.”
Jack and Dekka exchanged a wary look, each wondering what the other had known or guessed about Little Pete.
“Little Pete?” Jack asked. “That little kid has that kind of power?”
“Yes,” Sam said simply. “Next to Pete, me, Caine, all of us, we’re like . . . like popguns compared to a cannon. We don’t even know what the limits of his powers are,” Sam said. “What we do know is we can’t communicate with him very well. We can’t even guess what he’s thinking.”
“Little Pete,” Dekka muttered and shook her head. “I knew he was important, I got that a long time ago. But he can do that? He has that kind of power?” She pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, “I see why you kept it secret. It’s like having a nuclear weapon in the hands of, well, a little autistic kid.”
Source: Plague
“Little pictures out of hell.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Little pitchers have big ears.”
“Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]”
“Little Planet on The Prairie
(New Earth Anthem)
New Earth is an art of love,
not a stain of hateful ignorance.
New Earth is a land of promise,
not of greed and indifference.
New Earth is a blank canvas,
we gotta decide what we paint -
masterpiece of an inclusive dawn,
or a bloody reminder of apish days.
New Earth is a better Earth,
we no longer thirst after blood.
We toil together without divide,
to be a gentle beacon in the cosmos.
Hijab, habit, turban, all are equal,
It's bigotry that is unacceptable.
On our New Earth character is supreme,
primitive traditions are expendable.
Existence here is an art of love,
at our planet on the cosmic prairie.
New Earth is a celebration of life,
not a validation of ruinous rigidity.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.”
Source: Ariel
“Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.”
“Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.”
“Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.”
Source: Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
“Little projects - not feature - film projects - you know, theater things, writing things, and jobs like doing rewriting for money, stuff like that. I don't recommend it. It's not a schedule that I'd want, although it was really good for me in a lot of ways. I became a better writer.”
“Little queen,' Madoc says with a crooked smile. Despite not sharing blood with Oak, the mischief in his expression is familiar. 'All grown up and come to devour your maker. I can't say as I blame you.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Little questions can sometimes solve big problems.”
“Little rabbits have big ears.”
“Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!”
“Little Red Riding Hood was a good story, but it wasn't interactive. Sooner or later I wanted to say 'no, I may be Red Riding Hood but I don't care about my grandmother; what I want is heroin and only heroin,' whereas the game had only 'over the river and through the woods' to offer me. Which was a good story, it just might not me mine.”
Source: You
“Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop
“Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.”
“Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.”
“Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Little rogues easily become great ones.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.”
“Little said is soon amended.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.”
“Little said is soonest mended.”
“Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.”
“Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“little seeds, someday flowers…
today i will
be good to myself,
and tomorrow maybe
a little bit better,
until being good to me
is a little easier,
and maybe even someday
not so hard at all.
maybe these are just little seeds
but i'll keep giving them
touches of sunlight…
just a little hope here
and a little grace there
and a little more light in those
places holding all the fear,
and then maybe all these little seeds
just might grow until someday they
become flowers…
and then i will be made of flowers.”