L Quotes
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“Longer metaphors, in the form of stories, allow more sophisticated relationships: […] In planning, the boundaries between myth, history and fiction are not so consequential as one might think.”
Source: City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
“Longer than an earthquake, a pandemic shakes your life and living”
“Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the heavens, I've been in love with you.”
“Longer-term, I think the markets would rally under a [Donald] Trump plan and sell-off on a [Hillary] Clinton policy.”
“Longevi, ci chiamavamo tra noi. Eravamo una sorta di Dorian Gray ambulanti senza un ritratto marcescente in soffitta e, durante i secoli, avevamo collezionato i più stravaganti epiteti: streghe, vampiri, angeli, demoni, doppelgänger.
Non avremmo mai conosciuto le gioie della maternità o della paternità, poiché i nostri figli morivano – senza eccezioni – appena venuti alla luce. Avremmo potuto tentare all’infinito, accontentarci di sentire per nove mesi i loro calci ovattati attraverso la pelle del ventre, per poi dover accettare di vederli spegnersi appena fatto capolino nel mondo.
Avevo seppellito tre figli, tutti nati morti alle prime avvisaglie di autunni distanti vite intere l’uno dell’altro. Alcune sere percepivo ancora la sensazione asfissiante della terra bagnata sotto le unghie. Temere che la propria creatura, di cui non hai mai udito il pianto, possa sentire freddo sotto la terra è il primo segnale di una follia disperata.
Scavare tra le lacrime per riabbracciare quel corpo inerme e bianco, che non è mai stato vivo se non nel buio del tuo grembo, e poi desistere in un barlume di lucidità è un’esperienza straziante. Si rimane con un pugno di fango in mano, la gola stretta dall’angoscia e il cuore vuoto.
Ho sentito tre figli crescere e perire dentro di me. E se fossi così folle da riprovarci, un quarto, un quinto e un sesto mi farebbero singhiozzare dalla gioia e poco dopo dal tormento. Così sarà per sempre. È una delle mie tante condanne.
Malachia, Robert e io non potevamo dirci amici. Tuttavia lo eravamo, quasi inevitabilmente, per una serie di eventi e per la maledizione che ci univa.
Nella mia lunga carriera ne avevo profanati di sarcofagi, templi e necropoli. Così innumerevoli, che ormai avevo perso il conto. Eppure, con tutti gli anatemi che mi ero tirata addosso, nessuno di questi era ancora riuscito a farmi apprezzare quello sotto il quale ero nata.”
Source: La Stella di Seshat
“Longevity can be a source of corrective optimism. I recall an occasion early in the George W. Bush presidency when my friend and former physician, Quentin Young, was confronted at a talk by a medical student who lamented that she couldn't imagine being able to win any progressive objectives because the right had been in power all her conscious life. Quentin, who was then about eighty years old, responded that a virtue of having lived as long as he had was that he knew that almost no one, no matter how far left or how optimistic, standing in 1950 would have predicted that the back of the Jim Crow system would be broken within fifteen years. He was correct, and that's a good lesson for us all to keep in mind in this most perilous time in this country and the world.”
“Longevity can't be the only test of love.”
Source: Morning is a long time coming
“Longevity conquers scandal every time.”
Source: Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative
“Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.”
“Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"”
“Longevity is a big part of credibility.”
“Longevity is a huge factor in becoming separate from the mass of people that are just starting, or don't have any friends in the same realm, or don't really have the foundation. So it's good and bad, it's easy and it's hard. It's really what you make of it. Because if it's truly something that you really enjoy and obsess over, then waiting 10 years or waiting 30 years shouldn't be that big of a deal for you. As you get older and as you work harder, you see further down the road.”
“Longevity is earned through the compound interest of daily movement, nourishment, and rest.”
“Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.”
“Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.”
“Longevity is the key to success.”
“Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.”
Source: The evening colonnade
“Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.”
Source: Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921
“Longganisa was curled up on her bed beneath my desk but stood up to greet me. Today, she was outfitted in a leaf-patterned hoodie that bore the Brew-ha Cafe logo. Cute, simple, and practical since Longganisa hated the cold. I clipped on her leash and led her around the cafe. Her usual admirers surrounded us, and we spent some time on pets and belly rubs. When we got to the front of the shop, Leslie was helping Adeena bag her order.
"Longganisa, show your Tita Adeena some love."
Adeena was more of a cat person, but she loved my little wiener dog almost as much as I did. Longganisa adored her as well, and Adeena was the only person other than me and Jae who was allowed to pick her up. Even Tita Rosie didn't get that privilege.
Adeena snuggled Longganisa close to her chest, and Longganisa rewarded her with a few licks. "Oh, my bestest girl. Your kisses will sustain me through all my family lecturing.”
Source: Guilt and Ginataan
“Longhaired preachers come out every night, Tryin' to tell us what's wrong and what's right. But when asked about something to eat, They will tell you in voices so sweet. You will eat (You will eat!) By and by, (By and by!) In that glorious land in the sky. (Way up high!) Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. (That's a lie!)”
“Longing alone is singer to the lute.”
Source: Millay: Poems
“Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.”
“Longing and elation, anguish and joy — they were all there, sometimes commingling in the same canvas. It was in some ways unsettling, but compelling as well.”
“Longing at eighteen for an early demise, I felt myself unfitted for it. I lacked, in short, the muscles suitable for a dramatic death. And it deeply offended my romantic pride that it should be this unsuitability that had permitted me to survive the war.”
Source: Sun & Steel
“Longing, because I miss her. I miss talking to her as me.
Lust greater than I've ever known, because we're like this, it's the only time she softens and changes and gives me an inch, and it's a need that's in my head just as much as my body. It keeps me on my toes.”
Source: Punk 57
“Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.”
“Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.”
“Longing for Heaven won’t help you to make the most of this lifetime, the one you have now.
Especially if you’re interested in Spiritual Enlightenment, don’t treat this precious human life like some pathetic kind of consolation prize.”
Source: Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day
“Longing for home broke over me suddenly and awfully, and closed my throat.”
Source: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
“Longing for more wealth is being a slave to your own ignorance.”
“Longing for someone to give meaning to your life indicates a lack of personal goals and aspirations.”
“Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.”
Source: Changing Heaven
“Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.”
“Longing for the moon, I have become a lover of night.”
“Longing for the poem, you become a poet. Longing for the waters, you become the river. Longing for the light as the dark grows thick, you become the starflowers of the night. It is the thirst that makes you the carver as you draw the longing into the deep.”
“Longing for women other than your wife is not the root cause of infidelity”
Source: Cheating Spouse Help Book For Christian Men: To Stop Cheating on Her: Code-Named: Keep Your Horse in the Barn and Same Stall
“Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.”
“Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.”
“Longing is all that lasts.”
Source: Telegraph Avenue then
“Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground”
“Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
“Longing is like the seed
That wrestles in the ground,
Believing if it intercede
It shall at length be found.
The hour and the zone
Each circumstance unknown,
What constancy must be achieved
Before it see the sun!”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.”
“Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.”
“Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.”
“Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of longing. It could be called dissatisfaction; it could be called distance. There are many kinds of wanting to get closer to something else, whether that is an idea, a body, a place. Longing is also one of the conditions people approach reading, visual art, or music with - it's to satisfy that sense of longing. It's part of my job, on some level, to grapple with that notion.”
“Longing is unavoidable, so live with it as best you can. Let it be an ally--the hunger that propels the hunt.”
Source: Total Balance Farm