L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it”
“Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.”
“Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.”
“Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.”
“Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!”
“Look at these lines! Look at them! I look like a Lamborghini with boobies!”
Source: The Reluctant Master
“Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay”
Source: Ah Pook is here, and other texts
“Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.”
“Look at things
and listen
and feel.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“Look at things differently”
“Look at this beautiful world!”
Source: I'll Meet You There
“Look at this body!
What a beautiful and natural valley of a body. Luscious, soft, all skin on skin, and carved in the most artistic way ever.”
“Look at this body...Do I look like I use steroids?”
“Look at this drink. I know it, and I like to believe that it knows me. I love it, I fear it, but mostly, I respect it, and in return, it helps me tolerate people. You could say that I worship alcohol”
Source: Lost Seeking Dreams
“Look at this,' Henry called from a few yards away. His voice was theatrically shocked. 'I have discovered that, at some point, this side door was broken into by a teenage Korean vandal.”
Source: The Raven King
“Look at this, I'm a coward too...
You don't need to hide my friend, for I am just like you...”
“Look at this Judith Miller thing. Isn't that problematic? Like, she's getting fed information from the White House and she's feeding it to her editors and then it's in the Times and then the people at the White House can quote themselves? And it's the New York Times!”
“Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.”
“Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy
“Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.”
Source: Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time
“Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked…complicated and hungry. She’d captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting.”
Source: Perfect Glass
“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“Look at this tangle of thorns.”
Source: Lolita
“Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.”
“Look at Thomas Jefferson. The guy had illegitimate kids in the 1700s, and they caught him last year. If you cheat on your wife and cover it up for 200 years, you're pretty much thinking you're home free.”
“Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.”
“Look at those clouds," said Jamie, gazing up at the sky. "Look at them."
"Yes," said Isabel. "They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them."
"Look at the shape of the clouds," she said. "What do you see in those beautiful clouds, Jamie?"
"I see you," he said.”
Source: The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
“Look at those dazzling mountains, their peaks kissed by the sun, and their slopes adorned with lush greenery. Thank God for letting you witness such stunning beauty.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years at a time with $10 to $12 million in treasuries or municipals, just waiting, waiting...As Jesse Livermore said, 'The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting.'”
“Look at those legs,” Noah says. “Look at that bone structure. Look at those eyes, you could get fucking lost in them.” “You need Google Maps to find your way out of my eyes,” Gideon says, executing an elaborate turn before catwalking back.”
Source: Foolish Hearts
“Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.”
Source: Cosmopolis
“Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.”
“Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.”
Source: Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
“Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.”
“Look at those whose good fortune people gather to see: they are choked by their own blessings. How many find their riches a burden! How many burst a blood vessel by their eloquence and their daily striving to show off their talents!”
Source: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party”
“Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.”
“Look at Ukraine. Its currency, the hernia, is plunging. The euro is really in a problem. Greece is problematic as to whether it can pay the IMF, which is threatening not to be part of the troika with the European Central Bank and the European Union making more loans to enable Greece to pay the bondholders and the banks. Britain is having a referendum as to whether to withdraw from the European Union, and it looks more and more like it may do so. So the world's politics are in turmoil.”
“Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.”
“Look at us,” Emerson laughs, “A couple of bleeding hearts.”
Source: Stepbrother Billionaire
“Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.”
“Look at us. Just look how similar yet different we are. An exclusive being and a commoner.”
Source: Rythm of Missing Pieces
“Look at us, making so many wrong choices thinking that it will lead to a better life.”
“Look at us. Running around, always rushed, always late. I guess that's why they call it the human race. What we crave most in this world is connection. For some people it happens at first site. It's when you know, you know. It's fate working its magic. And that's great for them. They get to live in a pop song; ride the express train. But that's not the way it really works. For the rest of us it's a bit less romantic. It's complicated and it's messy. It's about horrible timing and fumbled opportunities. And not being able to say what you need to say when you need to say it. At least, that's the way it was for me.”
“Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room
still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love.
We search for it all of our lives,
even after we find it.”
Source: Winter Recipes from the Collective
“Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.”
Source: Don't Stop the Carnival
“Look at us, won't you? We are nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.”
Source: Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
“Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA”
“Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.”
“Look at what Al Davis has done. He hired the first Hispanic head coach (Tom Flores), the first black head coach (Art Shell), and now me. It's not a coincidence. People in sports talk a lot about inclusiveness and giving people opportunities. While they talk, I only see one person doing it. Al is the last person on Earth who'd do this for a pat on the back. A pat on the back would annoy him. He does it for the right reasons.”