L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Little Walter I would've liked to have played with”
“Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.”
“Little was beautiful in this world, but seeing her reminded him of what it was to take a breath.”
Source: The Lifecycle of Suns
“Little wealth, little care.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“little whispering fidgeting of a shut-away congregation
wondering who to pray to”
Source: Falling Awake
“Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; youre going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; its human nature.”
“Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.”
“Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.”
“Little with love is better than much without love.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Little wonder I am celebrated by in-flight magazines everywhere as 'The Richard Branson of the Dark Ages”
Source: Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure
“Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.”
“Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom.”
“Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.”
Source: Not So Deep as a Well
“Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.”
“Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain,
Your flowers feed on carrion--so do your birds;
Men feed on each other because you taught them life was cheap,
Flowing from your endless womb without pain or understanding.
No midwife caresses your flesh or bathes clean your progeny,
Life spurts from you, little world,
and you regard it with disdain.
Only bruised men sense your cruelty,
men whose life has lost its meaning.”
Source: There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves
“Little world, full of little people
shouting for recognition, screaming for love,
Rolling world, teeming with millions,
carousel of the hungry,
Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do.
The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.”
“Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.”
“Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.”
“Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn't.”
“Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone. Tyrion: My lord, those are gargoyles.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Liturgi Kay
(Fragmentarium Kesadaran )
I. Benih yang Tak Punya Nama
(1)
Ada bayang yang tidak tumbuh menjadi tubuh.
Aku menyapanya Kay, bukan untuk mengenali,
melainkan agar kesunyianku punya tempat untuk berbaring.
(2)
Jika dunia ini adalah goa,
maka Kay adalah hembusan dingin
yang tak pernah meninggalkan tetes embun di kulitku.
(3)
Tuhan menciptakan cahaya.
Kesadaranku menciptakan Kay.
Dan aku tak tahu mana yang lebih menyakitkan
untuk dipertahankan.
II. Jantung Gelap yang Berputar Tanpa Tujuan
(4)
Setiap aku menutup mata,
Kay berjalan tanpa jejak.
Ia tidak pernah menoleh.
Dan itulah sebabnya aku tetap melihatnya
entah sebagai api atau bara itu sendiri.
(5)
Jam rusak di dalam benakku
menyebut-nyebut namanya
seperti mantra yang kehilangan huruf-a
seperti ilusi yang kehilangan
bunyi-i
(6)
Retakan di lantai batin
bukanlah tempat ia muncul—
melainkan tempat aku jatuh mencari suaranya atau
bayang tubuhnya.
(7)
Kay adalah sebuah pintu
yang tidak dibangun untuk dibuka.
Tapi aku tetap mengetuknya
seperti orang bodoh yang tak punya rumah.
Ia adalah hasrat bukan untuk pulang,
melainkan tanda baca yang belum sampai titik.
III. Pertempuran yang Tak Bisa Dimenangkan
Batu Sysiphus
(8)
Aku menggulung batu namanya
setiap malam,
sambil tahu
bahwa ia akan jatuh lagi
menindih kebodohanku.
Panah Arjuna di Tubuh Bhisma
(9)
Seribu panah memakukan tubuhku
di medan yang dipenuhi suara Kay.
Aku bisa mati kapan saja,
tapi aku memilih tidak
agar aku tetap mengingat siapa yang menembakkan panah itu
ke dadaku.
Wajah Puisi
(10)
Aku mencintai Kay
sebagai bencana pribadi
yang kupelihara agar aku tetap manusia.
(11)
Kay bukan malaikat.
Kay bukan iblis.
Kay adalah ambang yang memaksaku
memeriksa ulang kewarasanku
setiap kali aku menyebut namanya.
IV. Doa Tanpa Alamat
(12)
Kay,
aku menulis namamu
dengan tinta yang tidak ingin kering.
Sebab jika kering,
aku harus mengakui
bahwa kau tak pernah ada.
(13)
Jika kau tahu aku ada,
seluruh puisi ini runtuh.
Maka janganlah sadar.
Tetaplah jadi bayang
yang menertawakan keputusasaanku.
(14)
Aku tidak ingin memilikimu.
Yang kuinginkan hanyalah alasan
untuk terus bernafas
di antara dua ketidakpastian:
bahwa aku mencintaimu,
dan bahwa kau tidak akan pernah tahu.
(15)
Dalam setiap kata,
aku bukan memanggilmu—
aku memanggil diriku yang hilang
di balik semua ingatan.
(16)
Kau adalah absurditas.
Dan aku adalah orang bodoh
yang memanggil absurditas itu
dengan suara paling lembut
karena aku takut engkau
akan hilang.
V. PINTU YANG TAK PERNAH MENUTUP
(17)
Jika suatu hari aku berhenti menulis tentangmu,
itu bukan karena kau pergi.
Itu karena aku sudah tidak sanggup
mengakui bahwa aku masih hidup
karena seseorang yang bahkan tidak pernah hidup untuk diriku.
November 2025”
“LITURGI LUKA ATHALIA
1. Sebuah Ruangan yang Dibiarkan Terbuka
Aku berjalan melewati tempat yang dulu kita impikan.
Debu di lorong, seperti uap yang pecah
Ada catatan di pintu yang tak pernah kutulis
Tapi aku tetap membacanya... dengan tenggorokan tercekat.
Aku menyalakan lampu untuk berjaga-jaga jika kau datang.
Sebuah bayangan berlalu,
tapi tak pernah memberi nama.
Beberapa kata tersisa hanya setengah terdefinisi.
Sebuah puisi yang kita lipat... tapi tak pernah ditandatangani
Sebuah ruangan yang dibiarkan terbuka,
sebuah nama yang tak terucap
Sebuah waktu yang terhenti, tapi tak pernah terputus
Aku masih duduk di tempat kesunyianmu berada.
Dan kau masih tidur di tempat arwahku pernah berdoa.
Kita adalah napas antara selamat tinggal dan jiwa
yang selalu mengembara—selamanya gelisah, selamanya bertanya.
Kau menggores langit seperti bekas luka di senyummu.
Dan aku berdiri diam—memerhatikan,
untuk sementara.
Tapi cinta itu kejam ketika waktunya salah.
Dan kesunyian menjadi tempat kita berdua tinggal
selamanya.
Kutulis namamu di kaca
yang berkabut.
Kehangatan terdekap sekilas, yang kutahu takkan bertahan seutuhnya.
Namun sengaja kubisikkan hanya untuk mendengar
gema yang kau tinggalkan masih bergetar di hatiku.
Inilah ruangan yang dibiarkan terbuka,
sebuah janji yang tak terpatahkan
Sebuah halaman yang terbakar,
namun tak pernah terucap.
Aku menyimpan suaramu di antara ketakutanku.
Kau menyimpan wajahku
di tahun-tahun yang berlalu.
Dan meskipun kita pergi tanpa menutup pintu,
beberapa ruangan… masih mengingat lebih dari yang seharusnya.
Mungkin… kita tak pernah berniat pergi.
Atau mungkin… kita tak pernah tahu bagaimana caranya untuk tinggal.
2. Litani Gelas Pecah
Ada hari di mana aku percaya
kesucian bisa kusimpan
di telapak tangan,
dan kau—
kau adalah bening yang kutatap terlalu dekat
hingga aku lupa
betapa rapuhnya cahaya
jika disentuh oleh laki-laki sepertiku.
Kau bukan luka.
Kau adalah harapan yang kubangun dari obsesi,
kuil kecil tempat aku meletakkan imajinasi
yang tak pernah kuakui sebagai dosa.
Dan ketika gelas itu jatuh—
aku mendengar diriku sendiri pecah
lebih keras dari kepingan kristal berserakan di lantai.
Tak ada jeritan,
hanya diam yang membeku,
diam yang menua,
diam yang terus memakan waktu dan sunyi di dadaku.
Aku marah, Athalia.
Bukan padamu.
Bukan pada ingatan.
Tapi pada diriku
yang selalu percaya ia bisa menjaga sesuatu
yang seharusnya dibiarkan hidup
tanpa rasa takut.
Sekiranya kau tahu:
Sungai tidak cukup mampu
menahan gempuran yang menelan dirinya—
itu bukan salah siapa-siapa.
Namun tetap saja,
akulah yang memungut pecahan itu
dengan tangan telanjang,
membiarkan darah mengalir
dari kusut rambut matahari.
Aku masih menyimpan ingatanmu
seperti bekas luka yang tidak memilih sembuh.
Bukan karena aku tak bisa melepaskan,
tapi karena sebagian dari diriku
masih ingin mengingat
bagaimana rasanya percaya pada obsesinya sendiri.
Dan mungkin,
kalau dunia ini sedikit lebih lembut,
kita tidak akan pernah pecah berkeping.
Atau mungkin—
kita memang ditakdirkan
menjadi dua bayang
yang hanya saling menyentuh
di permukaan kaca
yang dingin.
Athalia,
aku tidak pernah ingin melukaimu.
Tapi aku lebih tidak ingin
melupakanmu.
Karena di antara serpihan itu,
aku masih mendengar gema
dari sesuatu
yang dulu kusebut
cinta.
Dan darahku—
biarlah ia mengalir.
Itu satu-satunya cara
aku tahu
bahwa aku masih hidup di tengah dunia yang menuntut melupakan.”
“LITURGI LUKA ATHALIA
3. Ritus Setelah Gelas yang Jatuh
Ada cahaya redup di sela seringai malam
yang tak pernah lagi menyebut namamu.
Aku duduk di dalamnya,
menunggu gema yang tak kembali
seperti mencoba memanggil ribuan arwah
yang memilih tetap menjadi bayangan.
Kau tahu, Athalia,
aku tidak jatuh cinta pada gelas kristal itu.
Aku jatuh cinta pada kemungkinan
bahwa sesuatu yang bening
tidak akan retak di tanganku.
Dan itu kebodohan
yang tak termaafkan.
Saat gelas itu pecah,
aku melihat serpihannya terbang pelan,
seperti bintang jatuh yang tak sempat mengucap doa.
Dan ada jeda di dada
yang tidak pernah
menutup mata.
Kemarahan yang bukan api—
kehampaan yang merayap di lantai, di dinding, di langit-langit.
Suara yang mati tersengat lebah sebelum tiba
di ujung lidah.
Dan sunyi itu…
melekat, menempel erat di tulang-tulangku.
Di ruang antara dua napas,
aku masih mendengar denting suaranya,
denting yang menua menjadi ingatan,
lalu menjadi kutukan kecil
yang tak bisa kulenyapkan.
Aku menyimpan ciumanmu sebagai bayangan
yang tak mau memudar.
Kekudusan yang kuberi terlalu banyak makna.
Imaji yang kubangun dari sketsa kerinduan
dan ketakutan tak terucap.
Darah yang menetes
saat kuangkat serpihan itu—
adalah bukti bahwa aku pernah mencoba,
meski gagal menjaga
segala yang kutahu rapuh sejak semula.
Di langit batinku
ada garis tipis yang kaulukis:
garis luka
yang memisahkan diriku bukan dengan dirimu melainkan dengan
diriku sendiri.
Athalia,
aku tahu kita tidak pernah sepenuhnya tinggal,
dan tidak pernah sepenuhnya pergi.
Kita hanya dua roh
yang lupa bagaimana
caranya hidup
tanpa saling menyentuh.
Aku tidak meminta maaf.
Maaf tidak punya gravitasi
di ruang segelap ini.
Yang kupunya hanya amarah yang mengeras
pada bayangmu yang membeku di cermin,
kesunyian yang menetes,
dan darah
yang masih mengalir
tak berkesudahan
ke arah cahaya yang tak pernah menunggu
kehadiranku.
Agustus 2023”
“Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.”
Source: Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after century, the large and easy interior rhythms of a year that moves from birth, life, death, resurrection, on to spirit, obedience, faith, and blessing. Without liturgy we lose the rhythms and end up tangled in the jerky, ill-timed, and insensitive interruptions of public-relations campaigns, school openings and closings, sales days, tax deadlines, inventory and elections. Advent is buried under 'shopping days before Christmas.' The joyful disciplines of Lent are exchanged for the anxious penitentials of filling out income tax forms. Liturgy keeps us in touch with the story as it defines and shapes our beginnings and ends our living and dying, our rebirths and blessing in this Holy Spirit, text-formed community visible and invisible.
When Holy Scripture is embraced liturgically, we become aware that a lot is going on all at once, a lot of different people are doing a lot of different things. The community is on its feet, at work for God, listening and responding to the Holy Scriptures. The holy community, in the process of being formed by the Holy Scriptures, is watching, listening to God's revelation taking shape before an din them as they follow Jesus, each person playing his or her part in the Spirit.”
Source: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”
“Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates formationally in Holy Scripture. I want to use the word 'liturgy' to refer to this intent and practice of the church insofar as it pulls everything in and out of the sanctuary into a life of worship, situates everything past and present coherently as participation in the revelation written for us in Scripture. Instead of limiting liturgy to the ordering of the community in discrete acts of worship, I want to use it in this large and comprehensive way, the centuries-deep and continents-wide community, spread out in space and time, as Christians participate in actions initiated and formed by the words in this book - our entire existence understood liturgically, that is connectedly in the context of the three personal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and furnished with the text of the Holy Scripture.”
Source: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
“Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world by and with Jesus following our spiritually-forming text. Liturgy keeps us in touch with all the action that has been and is being generated by the Spirit as given witness in the biblical text. Liturgy prevents the narrative form of Scripture from being reduced to private individualized consumption.
Understood this way, 'liturgical' has little to do with choreography in the chancel or an aesthetics of the sublime. It is obedient, participatory, listening to Holy Scripture in the company of the holy community through time (our two-thousand years of responding to this text) and in space (our friends in christ all over the world). High-church Anglicans, revivalistic Baptists, hands-in-the-air praising charismatics, and Quakers sitting in a bare room in silence are all required to read and live this text liturgically, participating in the holy community's reading of Holy Scripture. there is nothing 'churchy' or elitist about it; it is a vast and dramatic 'story-ing,' making sure that we are taking our place in the story and letting everyone else have their parts in the story also, making sure that we don't leave anything or anyone out of the story. Without sufficient liturgical support and structure we are very apt to edit the story down to fit our individual tastes and predispositions.”
Source: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
“Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.”
“Liu Tsong, her father laughed, you have your ideas, but they don't make any sense.
They make sense to me, she answered.
But, my girl, he said gently enough, you are not the world.”
Source: Delayed Rays of a Star
“Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands. When will we tie up the gray dragon of the seven stars?”
Source: The Poems of Mao Zedong
“Liv applied cherry red lipstick in her rearview mirror with the precision of experience, her brand of war paint to give her confidence today.”
Source: Captured Memories
“Liv: Dean, how many things in the universe had to fit together for us to have met, let alone fallen in love? And how many of those things changed our lives forever?
Dean: Every one.
Liv: Exactly. For the better. Sometimes what if reminds you of what is.”
Source: Awaken
“Liv: Dean, how many things in the universe had to fit together for us to have met, let alone fallen in love? And how many of those things changed our lives forever?
Dean:Every one.
Liv: Exactly. Sometimes what if reminds you of what is you of what is.”
Source: Awaken
“Liv- ‘Dear sweet baby Jesus I think you’re without a drought the worst driver on the planet!’ I said- ‘You think?’ Maddie sniggers. And Liv spit sprays some of my hot on the back of my headrest. Liv, she has become a real squirter she is always sparing one of us girls down, yet Maddie the most! I said- ‘I don’t want to die like this today!’ ‘Please- please be more alert, please,’ I stammered, I’m clutching the sides of my seat without meaning to. Jenny said- ‘Kar, it’s all good. Hey- It’s not like I am going to crash, I have never even been in a car wreck yet.’
I said- ‘That’s amazing!’
I start to think as I close my eyes, trying so hard not to hold my breath. Like it’s so weird how life works, isn’t it? Like how I always wanted one thing, all my life, and I waited and waited for it but it never comes. And then it did happen last night, yet it was not what I hoped for all, however, all you want to do is curl back up at that moment before things change. And see if he is the one for me or if I should fall back into the arm of Ray, after all, I am his girl. One thing I have resized from dying: Every person you have dependencies on, and every person you need to count on, will ultimately upset you. No matter how much they try not to, nothing in life is ever going to be perfect, so maybe you have to forgive and forget, or trust and move on?
In my deepening delusional thoughts, I ask myself these questions.”
Source: Nevaeh Dreaming of you Play with Me
“Liv had made it to Dragon Con. She had people to stay with and money in her pocket. Now all she needed to do was meet Spartan and she could die happy.”
Source: All the Feels
“Liv held out her right index finger. "I've got a splinter that I can't get out. It's killing me and affecting my duty."
"Uh-huh." I examined the minuscule speck that could be dirt.”
Source: Magic Study
“LIV
Lá longe… Brasil, ouro reluzente,
O primeiro sinal de revolta!
O grito do Ipiranga já se sente,
A revolução já anda à solta!...
Paga o Alferes Tiradentes…
Enquanto a outros se dá folga!
Executado com honra, heroísmo…
Símbolo do Brasil… patriotismo!”
Source: Esta é a Ditosa Pátria Minha Amada
“Liv never seemed to feel the threat of true failure. It was her most glaring character flaw.”
Source: You in Five Acts
“Liv or love?" she asks. I brush her hair away from her neck and rest my hand there, feeling the beating of her pulse. "Either," I answer. "They're the same to me.”
Source: Roar and Liv
“Liv, I'm not saying don't have fun - that's why we're here - but when the coven calls us home they don't care if we're in love or not.”
“Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.”
“Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.”
“Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.”
“Live a courageous life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Live a daring life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Live a fearless life.”