L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn’t matter.”
Source: The Informers
“Looking at Tory is like looking at the sun. Life-giving, yet utterly destructive.”
Source: Icing Hearts
“Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.”
“Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.”
“Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.”
“Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote.”
“Looking at where the planet is now, we could screw things up massively or we could wise-up on a species level and actually make things better. If I had to put my money where my mouth is, I think we'll wise up globally but there will still be outbreaks of local stupidity.”
“Looking at Woja Beki’s face, I wonder why he was ever born, considering there’s an infinite host of unborn begging to be born, considering most of the unborn would be decent people if given a chance at life. Why does the Spirit keep on cursing the world with the existence of the likes of Woja Beki?”
Source: How Beautiful We Were
“Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.”
Source: Until You
“Looking at you reminds me of the kind of man I should be with."
"And what kind of man is that? Drunken, poor, pathetic?"
"No. I´ve never met him, but I see him plain as day. He has crinkles around his eyes when he smiles and tanned skin from working outdoors. Honest labor has callused his hands. He and I will hunt together, cook and eat big family meals together. He´ll marry me and love my family, too." Voice gone soft, she said, "He´ll give me a baby boy and a girl.”
Source: Lothaire
“Looking at Your Empty Bowl
My bowl, empty now,
will soon be filled with precious food.
Beings all over the Earth are struggling to live.
How fortunate we are to have enough to eat.
When many people on this Earth look at an empty bowl, they know their bowl will continue to be empty for a long time. So the empty bowl is as important to honor as the full bowl. We are grateful to have food to eat, and with this gatha, we can vow to find ways to help those who are hungry.”
“Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.”
Source: The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot
“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.”
“Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.”
“Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.”
“Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.”
“Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.”
“Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.”
“Looking back along my morning’s route, I can see the trail roller-coasting past estuaries and inlets, snaking its way along the meandering coastline.”
Source: The Long Path Home
“Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing.”
“Looking back, as I am wont to do during these mind-numbing incarcerated days and restless imprisoned nights, I wonder if I hadn't been called to Italy by a higher power. I don't believe that everything happens for a reason--things happen because we make them happen--but sometimes the mystic reaches its long fingers through the ether and taps us on the breastplate.”
Source: A Certain Hunger
“Looking back at all the films it just seems like one long film.”
“Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.”
Source: Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography
“Looking back at Batman from a distance - after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily been abandoned - it's easy to see the movie for what it is: a moderately diverting motion picture that should have been shorter and better paced. There are a lot of things wrong with Batman, but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie. The best thing that can be said about Batman is that it led to Batman Returns, which was a far superior effort.”
“Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.
And alive, for the first time in his life.”
Source: Sand for Dreams
“Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’”
“Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.”
“Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.”
“Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.”
“Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.”
“Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way.”
“Looking back at that moment, I understand that I had lived in books so long, in my narrow university setting, that I had become compressed by them internally. Suddenly, in this echoing house of Byzantium-one of the wonders of history-my spirit leaped out of its confines. I knew in that instant that, whatever happened, I could never go back to my old constraints. I wanted to follow life upward, to expand with it outward, the way this enormous interior swelled upward and outward. My heart swelled with it...”
Source: The Historian
“Looking back at the fact that Eve was created as Adam’s helper, it can be seen that it signifies that the wife was never meant to be subservient to her husband. She was made to be an astute (not gullible/compliant) being who has rights to use her opinions and experience to not only be guided by her husband, but to also guide her husband.”
Source: Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics
“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.”
Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
“Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I’m now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable.”
“Looking Back Dear Lord,
For every issue that I regret there’s hundreds I’m proud of. The hand full of things I wish I could change there’s a ton of things I wouldn’t. Many days, I felt pain in my heart, but thousand days I felt love. Every day of weakness was met with years of strength. Thank you Dear Jesus for always being there. Amen.”
“Looking back doesn't have to be painful.”
“Looking back, Granny must've wanted an ordinary life for Mom, too. But Mom didn't have it. Dr Shim was right--being ordinary was the trickiest path. Everyone thinks "ordinary" is easy and all, but how many of them would actually fit into the so-called smooth road the word implied? It sure was a lot harder for me, someone who was not born ordinary. That didn't mean I was extraordinary. I was just a strange boy wandering around somewhere in between. So I decided to give it a try. To become ordinary.”
Source: Almond. Come una mandorla
“Looking back, her dreams had felt impossible and she had felt so courageous for believing in them. But now she realized those were never her dreams, not really. They had been dreams borrowed from stories, dreams she had clung to because she had yet to imagine her own dreams.”
“Looking back, I can’t help but marvel at my naivety. I wasn’t chasing a fresh start. I was running straight into a reckoning.”
Source: INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER
“Looking back I can tell you the fact - the amount of money is not the main reason which is affecting our travel ability and mountains of happiness which we receive when we are open to that what God is providing for us!”
Source: Destination: Me: 108 Ascetic Days Across Eurasia
“Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.”
“Looking back, I had many preconceptions and even misconceptions about Zen—dreams of mystical experiences on mountaintops and such. At least in part, I was motivated by a youthful desire to escape the seemingly boring familiarity of my native culture and to seek adventure in an exotic land. In effect, I was fleeing rather than finding myself, insofar as I was yearning for the exciting and extraordinary rather than awakening to the here and now of what in Zen is called "the ordinary mind" or "the everyday even mind”
Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
“Looking back, I have come to realize that the gang lifestyle back then—the fame, the respect, and the recognition—was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. It was like a do or die situation. Shelton ‘Apples’ Burrows reform gang leader”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.”
“Looking back, I now see that I was exaggerating. “Forever” was a big word for a seven-year-old. But feeling unimportant does feel like forever.”
Source: Dance Like Nobody's Watching
“Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and cruel, thereby making me distrustful of all authority. On the other hand, I had a warm, supportive and encouraging mother, which made me want to fix the world.”
“Looking back, I see that encountering that lone and revered Islander Owen Rabbitt was an omen, an announcement, a heads-up. He was telling us two things that proved to be most true:
1. Come correct. Fishing here takes knowledge. Fish the right lure the right way at the right place.
2. What you catch in this place will enrich you far more than fish. The lone elder on that rock up in Gay head made it clear: This place has the ability to show you things deeper than fishing: things seen and heard in liminal space.”
Source: A Long Cast: Reflections on 50 Years of Visiting the Martha's Vineyard Surf
“Looking back, I think the reason I kept chasing quick fixes was because, for the briefest moment, the slight reprieve they offered helped me forget how messed up and broken I was. In my heart of hearts, I felt like the slate of my life was so scribbled and dirty, with so many arrests and broken relationships, that it wasn’t even worth trying to clean up. Since I could not be cleansed, fixed, or cured, I simply learned to cope by covering the messy “whiteboard” of my life with pieces of white paper: a fling with a cute girl
boosted my pride, an epic adventure with friends made me excited and confident; sports made me feel tough, while good grades and a nice job boosted my ego. While each distraction helped me to ignore the mess underneath, I never found anything that could erase it. So, I stacked up the distractions until they grew so numerous, they fluttered everywhere throughout the muddled chaos I called my life.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose