L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.”
“Long before we even lose our lives, we lose our souls. Tragic but true. Some carry on—willing to make the sacrifices, putting what is perceived as important before anything else. Some tread into the dark—wasting moments of grace, letting themselves suffer from their own decisions or the other’s domination. Some continue to love, give too much, and not leave even a little love for themselves.”
Source: Brightest
“Long before we had writing or farms or post-digital strike helicopters, we had each other. We lived together and changed each other, and so we needed to say “this is who I am, this is what I do.”
So, in the same way that we attached sounds to meanings to make language, we began to attach clusters of behavior to signal social roles. Those clusters were rich, and quick-changing, and so just like language, we needed networks devoted to processing them. We needed a place in the brain to construct and to analyze gender.”
“Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.”
“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”
“Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.”
“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
“Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”
“Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.”
Source: Peace Kills
“Long COVID appears to be very similar to high altitude diseases.”
“Long COVID has caused a shortage of mental health doctors.”
“Long COVID is associated with lowered testosterone levels.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements
“Long COVID is believed to be related to Mitochondrial Disease.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Long COVID is not new, as it was previously reported as ‘Post-Viral Illness’ which is also called ‘Long Flu’.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements
“Long COVID should be suspected in people with unusual failing health.”
Source: Night Shift Recovery
“Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.”
Source: Rasselas
“Long days and longer nights, and in between them such meaningless life.”
“Long days and pleasant nights”
Source: Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance
“Long days spent chasing wind, wanting to catch it between the palms of your hands.
Last weekend distant again until another next Friday. Mondays welcome all that is unholy after the holiest day. Bosses command, say this like that. Do this more correctly. Stand at attention. Work skins flesh to bone.”
“Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must make them sensible, by the mildness of your carriage, and in the composure even in the correction of them, that what you do is reasonable in you, and useful and necessary for them; and that it is not out of caprichio, passion or fancy, that you command or forbid them any thing.”
“Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living ... life on the move ... heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away.”
“Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You'll both be stronger as a result.”
Source: The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
“Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences.”
Source: Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper
“Long distance never works,” I say. “You said that yourself.”
“I know,” he says. “But it’s never been us, Nora.”
“So we’re the exception?” I say, skeptical. “The people it just works out for.”
“Yes,” he says. “Maybe. I don’t know.”
Source: Book Lovers
“Long distance relationship is like a dream,
It can be SWEET,
It can be SAD
and
It can also be a NIGHTMARE.”
“Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
“Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks”
“Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.”
“Long distance running is meditation. When I finish a long run, it’s like my brain has been washed. All the stress and negative thoughts are left somewhere on those long kilometers. At the end, the illusions of the past and future are removed from my mind, and it is set back to zero, so I feel I am totally in the present moment, reset, and ready to restart my life afresh.”
“Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.”
Source: Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49
“Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.”
Source: Marathoning for Mortals: A Regular Person's Guide to the Joy of Running or Walking a Half-Marathon or Marathon
“Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.”
“Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.”
“Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom and grow with new vigor. He was the sun, and the tenderness he showed me was life-giving water.”
“Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
And the ancient silence follows
The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
And dreams of countless Junes,
Return when the lake-wind murmurs
Through golden August noons.”
“Long drive at three in the morning with the right music, and right people having a cup of tea is an excellent way to heal some old wounds.”
“Long drives have their own language, their own rhythm, their own reality.”
Source: The Devil Takes You Home
“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life”
Source: Walt Whitman's
“Long enough snobbish retards have ruled the world! Now it is time for selfless nuts to take charge.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.”
“Long exercised in woes.”
Source: The Iliad ...
“Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.”
“Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.”
Source: My Theatre Talks
“Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.”
“Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.”
“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.”
“Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.”
“Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.”
Source: The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)
“Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.”
“Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.”