L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.”
“Looking for your belongings far away from the vicinity of your bath place is to pinch trouble.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Looking for Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for
Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did
I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes
My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold
I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine
Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow
My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you
Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky
My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer”
Source: The Love Poems of Rumi
“Looking for your light,
I went out:
it was like the sudden dawn
of a million million suns,
a ganglion of lightnings
for my wonder.”
Source: Speaking of Siva
“Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.”
“Looking forward didn't mean he stopped feeling what had been behind.”
“Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.”
Source: Robinson
“Looking-forward-to is a diversion
that takes us out of the presence.”
Source: The Essential Rumi
“Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.”
“Looking forward with an eternal perspective gives one hope, a reason to look up and feel gratitude for even the smallest bit of light.”
“Looking from a distance, we find something attractive and excitedly commit to it. When we come near, we find it unbearable. Then we have to continue with it because we have already committed to it.
Everything in Maya (Time-Space) is like that. You current status in life is something your younger self would find very attractive. It looked exciting from the distance of Time. Now it’s not.”
“Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.”
Source: The Birds And Other Stories
“Looking Glass Of Light Expansion S.e.t.s.P.a.s.s.a.g.e. : Xora's Water, Earth's Sage, Fire's Gift, Wind's Passage, Resistance, Staff Of Apocalypse, Sacred Globes, Quad Abstract, Square, Circle, Rectangle.”
“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”
“Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set and you're working out, you're going to feel good.”
“Looking good in Italy is even more important than looking where you're going.”
“Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.”
“Looking good kept me out of trouble. When I worked for Michael Alig, everybody was overdoing partying. It would take me so long to get ready, because I was never one of those girls that were naturally the cover of Vogue. I had to really work hard to look nice. I would take hours and hours to get ready. If you have high heels on, if you're dressed nice, you really can't be drunk or sloppy because it's dangerous. It's part of being a lady, so it really kept me out of trouble.”
“Looking good Matt, you look like a money.”
“Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.”
“Looking him over, I realized that Robbie Feaver had turned an important corner in his life in the last few weeks; he remained good-looking, but worry and sleeplessness and depression and poor diet had worn on him in a way likely to be permanent. They had stolen some of his glory. Yet he'd maintained the show-must-go-on spirit, and had done his best to look his part.”
Source: Personal Injuries
“Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.”
Source: Magnetic Reverie
“Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.”
“Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.”
“Looking in those eyes I had grown to like so well - the eyes I trusted implicitly but could make my stomach writhe with pleasure - I felt a twinge of sadness that there was nothing in the future to suggest we might ever be a normal couple.
"If we don't make it out alive -"
His shook his head once. "We will."
I continued, more quickly this time. "If we don't -"
"Especially if we don't," he finished, pulling me into him. My lips met his - this time unsurprised. This time, I wanted it desperately.”
Source: The Defectors
“Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.”
Source: The Silver Linings Playbook
“Looking into her eyes, I see the emptiness of my mind reflected in the vibration of my heart—love without the presence of 'Me.”
Source: Just Love Her
“Looking into his eyes instead of where she was stepping, she put her foot too far to the edge of the step and as she shifted her weight forward to get onto the boat, her foot slid and she ended up falling into Chase.
He caught her—also like some stupid romantic movie—but the bag she was holding whacked him in the leg and he winced. She looked down. It didn’t just hold strands of lights. There was also a big, hard plastic, gold-glitter covered star. With very sharp points. One of which was poking into his leg.
Bailey quickly shifted to move the bag away from his leg but that only managed to press her hips into his.
And the big, hard shape behind his fly.
Her eyes flew to his face.
He was looking down at her. His expression held pain, amusement, heat, and exasperation all at once.
Impressively.
“Sorry I’m poking you,” she said, her voice breathless.
“I was going to say the same.”
His grin registered before his words did.”
Source: Must Love Alligators
“Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.”
Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)
“Looking into my daughter’s eyes, I thought of my mother, who had faced these first hours alone after I was born. She had been made no promises, been offered no guarantees that either she or I would even live past that night. If something had been ruptured inside of her, no one would have noticed. If something had been broken inside of newborn me, perhaps no one but my mother would have cared. My daughter’s quiet yet well-monitored first night was perhaps the one my mother had dreamed for me, for herself, a dream of kind words, kisses, flowers.”
Source: Brother, I'm Dying
“Looking into my future, I don't always want to be in front of the camera. I want to be behind the camera and bring to life those family members of mine or people that I knew or the kids I grew up. I want people to know the different facets of black people, brown people, all people.”
“Looking into someone's soul, you may want to take a shower.”
“Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.”
Source: Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin
“Looking is not seeing. Listening is not hearing.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Looking is one thing, seeing is another. Some only see with their eyes while others see with their minds also. However, inability to see with the mind is the worst kind of blindness.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Looking is the nature of wisdom.”
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.”
“Looking mighty fine, if I do say so myself: red v-neck, dark denim, designer combat boots, and enough testosterone rolling off me to satisfy Nicki Minaj. Pow!”
Source: The Liberator
“Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial doubts about reliance on military intervention and drone warfare as adequate counterterrorist responses and would call attention to the detrimental effects of US "special relationships" with Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
“Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?”
“Looking off to the horizon, properly and heroically squinting, Onni added, 'Get your washtub ready, brother. It will be a bloody business when the gnome empire strikes back.'
'Whoa,' Offi said, with feeling. 'You totally just gave me chills.”
Source: No Country for Old Gnomes
“Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“Looking once more into her child's fresh eyes, the mother's lips moved ever so gingerly.
The words forgive me slipped off her tongue, soft and delicate as a whisper, carried away into the stillness of a night she would never see again.”
“Looking onto memories, maybe we should try to focus on what came from the relationship. You two joined paths for a particular reason. Maybe you walked through some of the hardest times together. Maybe you understood each other in a way no one else ever did. Whether you like it or not, they are a part of your story.”
“Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.”
“Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.”
Source: My Beloved World
“Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.”
“Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.”