L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.”
“Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?”
“Look closely at someone suffering loss.
You'll see right through them
as they shimmer translucent
with pain,
humming, with thrumming
to be a normal,
trembling with assembling,
a gathering of particles.”
Source: The Belly of a Wolf
“Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.”
Source: The writings of a savage
“Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.”
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
“Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.”
“Look closely at your greatest thoughts about yourself. That's your future.”
“Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
“Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.”
“Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.”
“Look, cousin, there is a commotion starting over there beside the church. Two vegetable-women have probably got into a violent dispute over the vexed question of meum and tuum [mine and yours], and, with their arms akimbo, seem to be treating each other to some choice expressions. The crowd is flocking to them. A dense circle surrounds the two quarrelling women. Their voices are growing louder and shriller by the minute. They are waving their fists more and more fiercly. They are approaching each other more and more closely. We shall have fisticuffs any moment.”
Source: The Golden Pot and Other Tales
“Look, daddy, Mel gave me a pet!” The boy said excitedly. “He’s called Incy.”
Hunter looked down and inhaled sharply at the sight of a large spider in Adam’s little hand. His eyes snapped up to Mel, who was sitting silent and serene in the middle of the floor, obviously pleased with her present.
“A spider?” Hunter asked with exasperation. “Fine. Why don’t you get Mel to teach it tricks.”
Source: The Shadow Falls
“Look, de Mazel, you've known him for years - hasn't he been known to sleep for forty hours in two days?'
'Forty hours?'
'Certainly. He awoke at meal times, just to take nourishment, and afterwards fell again into his torpor. And Freneuse had a strange horror of sleep; there was some abnormal phenomenon associated with it, some lesion of the brain or neurotic depression.'
'The troublesome cerebral anaemia which results from excessive debauchery. Another myth! I've never believed, myself, in the supposed debauchery of that poor gentleman. Such a frail chap, with such a delicate complexion! Quite frankly, there was no scope in him for debauchery.
'Pooh! About as much as Lorenzaccio!'
'You associate him with the Medicis! Lorenzaccio was a Florentine impassioned by rancour, a man of energy slowly brooding over his vengeance, caressing it as he might caress the blade of a dagger! There is not the slightest comparison to be drawn between Lorenzaccio and that gall-green, liverish creature Freneuse.”
Source: Monsieur de Phocas
“Look deep inside the eyes of a woman, see the man you want to be.”
“Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.”
“Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clohes”
“Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clothes”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming?”
“Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.”
“Look deep into your user problem, and you will design better.”
“Look deep into your users' problems, and you will design better.”
“Look deep within. You will find everything you seek.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Look deep within yourself, and you'll find something amazing.”
“Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.”
“Look deeply into human nature and try understanding THE things better.”
“Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.”
“Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.”
“Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.”
“Look, don’t kill that fly!
It is making a prayer to you
By rubbing its hands and feet”
“Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train”
“Look down - look down that lonesome road
Before you travel on”
“Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.”
“Look down the road I’m traveling and you will see my goal; it’s there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Look down wells and look in the dark wet places. Look in forgetful places, and for forgotten things. Ask those that know the secrets whispered under earth and between stones.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Look down with maternal clemency, Most Blessed Virgin, upon all your children. Consider the anxiety of bishops who fear their flocks will be tormented by a terrible storm of evils. Heed the anguish of so many people, fathers and mothers of families who are uncertain about their future and beset by hardship and cares. (Christi Matri Rosarii)”
“Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.”
Source: You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P
“Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the entire rhythm nation. Set the Dj up as the executive, the legislative, and judicial branches. I mean, after listening to your beat, anything I've heard on the pop radio in the last five years feels like a violation of my civil rights.”
Source: Slumberland
“Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.”
“Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.”
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
“Look, everybody lies. You're the only pillar of truth I know."
"Me and the woman I end up with."
Oof.”
Source: The Marsh Queen
“Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get to you eventually. The important thing is that you keep trying to talk to each other, even if it's difficult at first. It gets easier. I promise.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“Look everywhere. There are miracles and curiosities to fascinate and intrigue for many lifetimes:
the intricacies of nature and everything in the world and universe around us from the miniscule to the infinite; physical, chemical and biological functionality; consciousness, intelligence and the ability to learn; evolution, and the imperative for life; beauty and other abstract interpretations; language and other forms of communication; how we make our way here and develop social patterns of culture and meaningfulness;
how we organise ourselves and others; moral imperatives; the practicalities of survival and all the embellishments we pile on top; thought, beliefs, logic, intuition, ideas; inventing, creating, information, knowledge; emotions, sensations, experience, behaviour.
We are each unique individuals arising from a combination of genetic, inherited, and learned information, all of which can be extremely fallible.
Things taught to us when we are young are quite deeply ingrained. Obviously some of it (like don’t stick your finger in a wall socket) is very useful,
but some of it is only opinion – an amalgamation of views from people you just happen to have had contact with.
A bit later on we have access to lots of other information via books, media, internet etc, but it is important to remember that most of this is still just opinion, and often biased.
Even subjects such as history are presented according to the presenter’s or author’s viewpoint, and science is continually changing. Newspapers and TV tend to cover news in the way that is most useful to them (and their funders/advisors), Research is also subject to the decisions of funders and can be distorted by business interests. Pretty much anyone can say what they want on the internet, so our powers of discernment need to be used to a great degree there too.
Not one of us can have a completely objective view as we cannot possibly have access to, and filter, all knowledge available, so we must accept that our views are bound to be subjective. Our understanding and responses are all very personal, and our views extremely varied. We tend to make each new thing fit in with the picture we have already started in our heads, but we often have to go back and adjust the picture if we want to be honest about our view of reality as we continually expand it. We are taking in vast amounts of information from others all the time, so need to ensure we are processing that to develop our own true reflection of who we are.”
“Look everywhere with your eyes; but with your soul never look at many things, but at one.”
“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”
“Look eye! Always look eye!”