L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?”
“London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.”
“London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.”
“London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.”
“London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.”
“London, dirty little pool of life”
“London, how could one ever be tired of it?”
Source: The Middle Ground
“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
“London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.”
“London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.”
Source: Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship
“London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.”
“London: A place you go to get bronchitis.”
“London; a nation, not a city.”
“Londoners have intense loyalties to the areas from which they come. Those born in Croydon will argue that theirs is a borough with access to the green belt, excellent shopping and wide, pleasant streets, while the rest of the city flatly knows that Croydon is a soulless hole whose only redeeming feature is the novelty of the electric tram and a large DIY store with reasonable parking. Likewise, those from Hackney would contend that their borough is vibrant and exciting, instead of crime-ridden and depressed; those from Acton would argue that their suburb is peaceful and gentle instead of soul-destroyingly dull, samey and bleak; and the people of Amersham would proclaim that their town is the ideal combination of leafy politeness and speedy transport links instead of, clearly, the absolute end of the earth. However, no one, not one mind worthy of respect, could defend Willesden Junction as anything but an utter and irredeemable dump.”
Source: The Minority Council
“Londres en un día sombrío y lluvioso es aún mejor que Madrid en un día luminoso y soleado.”
“Londres era a velha feiticeira que não morria. Que rejuvenescia em vez de envelhecer. Mas, em temperamento, permanecia o mesmo lugar que chamava a si os dias escuros de um Inverno interminável que se abatia sobre as horas do meio-dia como crepúsculo antes de tempo. Era a árvore milenar que apodrecia lentamente pela raiz com a humidade que chupava do Tamisa. As ruas da Londres moderna lutavam por receber mais luz. O centro da cidade crescera com a luminosidade do vidro e acabaria por expulsar a opacidade suja da pedra. Já não havia paredes que respeitassem a privacidade de quem habitava os edifícios. Os segredos tinham de ser mais cuidadosos se queriam existir. Era nas ruas antigas, onde as paredes de pedra ainda impediam a passagem da luz e a curiosidade dos olhares, que os segredos se refugiavam. Era nos edifícios centenários que moravam as recordações que queriam esconder-se, os segredos inconfessáveis, os demónios mais abomináveis e os fantasmas que não queriam desaparecer. Era lá, nas ruas muito mais velhas do que os nomes actuais que as identificavam no GPS, nas suas casas de paredes escuras, que todos se escondiam. Os que viviam e os que queriam voltar a viver.”
Source: A Cativa
“Londres no teme a los cambios, ni teme a los extranjeros, ni teme perder una identidad determinada. Es de una indiferencia majestuosa.”
Source: Historias de Londres
“Londres par une journée sombre et pluvieuse est toujours mieux que Paris par une journée claire et ensoleillée.”
“Londres, por las cartas que escribí, ¡han colocado, en el emplazamiento de la librería, una placa de cobre con mi nombre! Sigo pensando que soy un escritora sin cultura ni demasiado talento, pero a pesar de todo ¡me han dedicado una placa en un muro de Londres.”
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
“Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.”
“Lone rangers, that's what we are. We see the world with our naked eyes, unabashed of the greed and ego. Our mind resides on our tongue and we stand for what's right. A little too much fun, and an exciting package. Raving for life and exploring possibilities is our goal. Travel far and wide and into the wild, we will go for it someday. Care so much that even gods would bow down. Love to the hilt and then let go, coz that's what this life is meant for. One life and we will live up to the hilt and leave no regrets. So, when we land into our graves with a satisfied smile, we big farewell to the meanness of this so-called universe.
With every journey there is a new lesson learned, every place traveled, explored; makes us in fall in love with the earth. Care less about our whereabouts; we keep the expedition going because we want to go far beyond the civilized, beyond the living, beyond the world of predictability, beyond u and I & into the wild. Feasting the eyes, rejuvenating the senses, every breath we take is a sigh of relief and we make peace.
Choosing the roads less traveled, our wandering souls makes our way towards the unknown destination not only to discover ourselves but to discover the wild, nature and the mother earth.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Lone wolf howls at the great north celestial star… I am nothing it sings,
‘With the winds from the east,
‘The ghost army follows in the night,
‘Seen are wraiths, wisps of silvery dust, weaving waves in a sea of silken brocades,
‘And laid down the sleeping dragon is upon the land.”
“Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.”
Source: The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal
“Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)
“Lone working on utility electrical equipment up to 24,000 volts on hundreds of acres of poisonous snake and alligator infested land. No thanks!”
“Loneliess is a start of knowing oneself.”
“Loneliness, according to Stephanie Cacioppo, is the result of biological signals that push us to reach out to others interacting with a dysfunctional mind that perceives social danger everywhere.”
“Loneliness added to loneliness.”
Source: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
“Loneliness always eats up time, fills on depression where hands move slow, to reach out for a moment of care.”
“Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.”
Source: A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Top of Sigmund Freud
“Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.”
“Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.”
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.”
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”
Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
“loneliness as solitude with self-pity thrown in.”
Source: Phase Six
“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”
Source: The Spy Who Loved Me: James Bond 007
“Loneliness becomes a problem when the untrained mind reacts negatively to life changes. Our mind clings to, craves, or grasps at a different event or outcome. We attempt to change the reality of life to fit the reality that we want. This clinging creates suffering.”
Source: Never Be Lonely Again: The Way Out of Emptiness, Isolation, and a Life Unfulfilled
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
Source: 1Q84
“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”
“Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves.”
Source: Bitterthorn
“Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor”
“Loneliness can feel daunting, yet if you allow yourself to stay with it, it can quietly illuminate the answers to the struggles you’ve long kept hidden.”
“Loneliness can feel like what's private has been made public, as if your belly button has come undone and your liver, lungs, and beating heart have spilled onto the sidewalk.”
Source: The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
“loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.”
“Loneliness can't be seen. It's a worse feeling that can only be felt, We experience a lots of feeling in our life but loneliness is such a feeling that kills us from inside yet we can't help it. We only see our self being destroyed day by day,yet nothing to do.”
“Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“Loneliness cannot be shared.”