L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Looking back over a life of hard work… my only regret is that I didn’t work even harder.”
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
“Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in particular happened, except that I was utterly happy.”
Source: Hobokenfish: And, Chicagowhistle
“Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.”
Source: Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma
“Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.”
Source: Misadventurous
“Looking back, she sees a stranger, no longer the troubled and unsettled girl she used to be.
She has a quiet heart; she is her own applause”
“Looking back six years ago when I had just come from 'The Office' to 'The Mindy Project' and what I was trying to say back then. I feel like we don't revisit our younger idealistic selves, you just get in this pattern of churning these episodes out. Now I was like, "Let's try and get in my mind back then," because my life personally has changed so much, too. I just thought, "What was I trying to say? And now can I make it look like it was all part of one larger story."”
“Looking back, the child was immediately frightened and screamed; the rain on the top of her head suddenly disappeared, and four huge eyes rose from the cliff and looked at her, their pupils colored red with blood, reaching her in a blinking of an eye.
“Oh… Four-eyed bird!” she exclaimed, trying to escape.
However, amidst the screams, Chongming Divine Bird grabbed the little girl’s skirt with his giant beak, picked her up, spread her wings and soared away! She screamed and struggled desperately, but after a moment she landed in a place unharmed. It was a cliff not far away from the white rock; there was a recessed concave grotto under the cliff. The bird picked her up and placed her gently at the entrance of the cave, then stared at her, tilting her head towards the inside.”
Source: Zhuyan (With Prequel of Mirror) 朱颜
“Looking back through life you will find the pleasure of achieving your dreams is always greater than the pain you met while achieving them.”
Source: Life Capsules for Success: 50 Energy Capsules to Speed Boost You Towards Your Success, Now!
“Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.”
“Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.”
Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity
“Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.”
“Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.”
Source: My art, my life: an autobiography
“Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.”
Source: No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life
“Looking back, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected President in 1916 on a platform that had "kept us out of war"... Yet, five months later he asked congress to declare war on Germany...”
Source: War Is a Racket
“Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.”
“Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.”
“Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.”
“Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.”
“Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.”
“Looking back, I feel bad for treating the girls the way that I have. I just hope that he knows that I'm a good person and I hope it doesn't get in the way of what could be, like, the best thing that's ever happened to me.”
“Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young. It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best. I'm glad that I'm not there. I'm glad that it didn't happen when I was 50. I'm glad I didn't have kids. And I got that out of the way. Hopefully. Like, that's probably not going to happen again.”
“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”
Source: Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections
“Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!”
“Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”
“Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.”
Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel
“Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.”
“Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Looking back, I remember telling my daughters that we didn't have money, pizzazz and a lot of the things we have today, but we had so much love and we lived like millionaires.”
“Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never be enough to satisfy the longing in my heart to see the light, to know the truth.”
“Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.”
“Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.”
“Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.”
“Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.”
“Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.”
“Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.”
“Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then.”
“Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.”
“Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.”
“Looking back, I wish I could bottle the stuff that made it better, but how can one bottle time?”
“Looking back, I'm proud of what I've been able to do, grateful for the fact that I really have very few, if almost zero, nightmare stories of being on sets and working with the wrong people.”
“Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.”
“Looking back, I've learned that everyone is searching for three things: Identity, community, and a sense of individual purpose. These are fundamental, and if a person feels marginalized or disenfranchised, they're likely to turn to something negative, maybe drugs, maybe promiscuity, or maybe a white supremacist group.”
“Looking back, I've learned the most from the bad coaches, really, how not to act, how not to coach, how not to treat people. So I always say no matter what situations you're faced with, how bad it is, you can always walk away and learn. You can always rise above it.”
“Looking back, I've never had one regret.”
“Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I would not change is my charitable giving. I'm particularly thankful for my father's advice to set goals so high that they can't possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most. That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.”
“Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer, which is really funny because I would absolutely not be a lawyer in any way now. But I still like astronomy.”