L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Look Moy, see the chimneys, they've lit all the fires, they must have known we were going to try to drown ourselves. And Anax is running on ahead to bring the news.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Look!" Mr. Poe said, who was still too far to help but close enough to see. "Genghis has an eye tattoo, like Count Olaf! In fact, I think he IS Count Olaf!"
"Of course he is!" Violet cried, holding up the unraveled turban.
"Merd!" Sunny shrieked, holding up a tiny piece of shoelace. She meant something like "That's what we've been trying to tell you.”
Source: The Austere Academy
“Look—my feet don’t hit the marble!
Like breath or a balloon, I’m rising,
I hover six inches in the air
in my blazing swan-egg of light.
You think I’m not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you’ll burn.”
Source: Morning in the Burned House: Poems
“Look, my friend, never forget this, if life puts a wonderful calmness in front of you, know that it wants you to save energy and rest for the coming storm, take advantage of this opportunity!”
“Look my friend, what I am going to say may sound esoteric to you, but take it seriously, sometimes something comes to you just for you to change you, to guide you more correctly, maybe a book, maybe a movie, maybe someone, the message there is for you, that message has come just for you, evaluate that message well!”
“Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had such hides, all the hunters of Middle Earth would be riding to the Shire.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.”
Source: Princess Academy
“Look, no matter how much you want to be Y, you cannot be reborn as him. You are not Y. It's okay for you to be you. However, I am not saying it's fine to be 'just as you are'. If you are unable to really feel happy, then it's clear that things aren't right just as they are. You've got to put one foot in front of the other, and not stop.”
Source: The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“Look no where else than within.”
“Look north, he said, In the middle of that vast plain is a single lonely peak. In the light of the setting sun you can just make out the ruins of A-fang-kung, the palace of the great Ch'in Shih-huang, among the weeds and the high grass.
Look west. The wind is rustling the woods where the gray mountain mist hides Mou-ling, the tomb of Emperor Han Wu-ti.
In the east you can see the white wall reflecting the green hills where a red rooftop pierces the sky and the pale moon comes and goes. No one leans on the on the jade balustrades at Huang-ch'ing-kung where Emperor Hsuan Tsung frolicked with his ill-fated concubine Yang Kue-fei.
Those three emperors were for ten millennia the heroes of our history. Where are they now?
[Fenkl translation]”
Source: The Nine Cloud Dream
“Look not at pride only as an unbecoming temper, nor at humility only as a decent virtue: for the one is death, and the other is life; the one is all hell, the other is all heaven. So much as you have of pride within you, you have of the fallen angels alive in you; so much as you have of true humility, so much you have of the Lamb of God within you.”
“Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.”
Source: The Analects
“Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.”
“Look not down but up!”
“Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel
“Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.”
“Look not for the rain in the sun, nor for the sun in the rain. Cherish all of the seasons of your life, whether they be harsh or soothing.”
Source: These Words Burn Like Fire
“Look not in my eyes, for fear
They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
And love it and be lost like me.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!”
“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”
“Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand.”
Source: The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers
“Look not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens”
Source: Selected poems
“Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.”
“Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.”
“Look not to the past where you were embarrassed, for the most important thing is that those moments are gone, and you are still here.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.”
“Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.”
“Look not too long in the face of the fire O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. Tomorrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars!”
Source: Moby Dick
“Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!”
“Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.”
“Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.”
“Look nowhere specifically and then you can see everything.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“Look, old monk. You can’t ruin this. It’s my Alphatech, too. Ren. The next text-message comes.
Manage. I’m busy—Yuan thinks the reply. The CRAB in his wrist reads his thoughts and sends it to Ren, adding the signature YY at the end. YY—everyone knows it’s the signature of the founder of Alphatech, the signature of the monk war hero.”
Source: The High Auction
“Look on beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
Which therein works a miracle in nature,
Making them lightest that wear most of it:
So are those crisped snaky golden locks
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
Upon supposed fairness, often known
To be the dowry of a second head,
The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“Look on beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,
Which therein works a miracle in nature,
Making them lightest that wear most of it.”
“Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.”
“Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Little by little, you will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem, at first, impossible to master.”
“Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.”
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers;
How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd,
Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
Lie deep in cities as in drifts.”
“Look on the bright side, right? At least it wasn’t you,” he tried with a laugh as he patted Zane’s thigh.
Zane shook his head slowly as his eyes tracked to meet Ty’s.
“No. That would have been easier to handle,” he said baldly.”
Source: Fish & Chips
“Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Look on the bright side; that's one bullet that's not going to hit me.”
“Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.”
Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
“Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.”
“Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.”
Source: An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
“Look out at the stars,
Tell me what you see
I see atomic assemblies
The same as you and me.”