L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.”
Source: On Flirtation
“Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.”
“Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.”
Source: A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994
“Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand.”
“Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
“Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Honest communication depends upon mutual respect, upon listening, and ultimately on being willing to say "I'm wrong" and "I¹m sorry.”
Source: The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier
“Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start”
“Lovey immediately straightened next to her, his ears pulling back as he squinted at him, and then going straight up when Conall continued forward. When he then bared his teeth and growled low in his throat, Claray tightened her fingers in the fur at the back of his neck in warning, then turned to bare her teeth and growl at the wolf in return.
Lovey didn't look happy, but he did relax a little. Though she noticed he stood a little taller, puffed out his chest and went back to squinting suspiciously at Conall too.
"Wife?"
Claray turned to him in question. "Aye, husband?"
"Ye just growled at the wolf," he pointed out.
"Aye," she agreed, and smiled at him. " 'Tis what he understands.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“Lovey stepped in to add another layer to her husband’s story. “He gets teased constantly about having a Bible in one hand and a joke book in the other. When he’d act up his Mama would say, ‘How do you expect to get into heaven, young man?’ Of course, he had an answer . . . he said he’d just run in and out slamming doors until someone says, ‘Oh for heaven’s sake, either come in or stay out’ . . . then he’d go in.”
Source: A Kind of Hush
“Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners.”
“Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.”
“Love’? What do you know about love?” "It’s at the heart of every story,” Rollo said with authority. “If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.”
“Love’em or hate’em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living.”
Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.”
“Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!””
Source: Selected poems
“Lovin this Ghost Ghirls! It was great to get to play a madame not just a boring prostitute.”
“Lovin' you has made my life so beautiful
And every day of my life is filled with lovin' you
Lovin' you I see your soul come shining through
And every time that we ooooh I'm more in love with you”
“Loving a black man feels like chewing glass.
Drinking air. Fighting blood.”
“Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”
“Loving a film is like falling in love with a woman or with a man like you never expect it. It it's not the one you think you will be in love with, you know. You think always that he will be with a beard, and black, and big and finally he's Chinese and you know it's the same thing. There's something very organic about the film and if you forgot it, if you don't have this seed in it...this organic flavor in it the film doesn't work it's wrong.”
“Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.”
“Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough”
“Loving a man truly and really brings me to my knees.”
“Loving a moment doesn't remove the pain, but it does make room for joy.”
Source: Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
“Loving a person doesn’t make them who you desire; it makes you vulnerable to their reality.”
Source: I Liked My Life
“Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.”
“Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.”
“Loving a woman is always political.”
“loving a writer is only for the strong,
the ones who care to stare
at the sky with you. or at a locked door.
you refuse to open. and this is why
love remains crazy. undefined. unbearable.
irrational. because loving a writer
has no rules. it's like seeing the
world for the very first time.”
Source: Love & Vodka: A Book of Poetry for Glass Hearts
“Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.”
“Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Loving and appreciating each individual, including ourselves, as the showing forth of the One Creative Principle, takes a great deal of humility and this includes sharing.”
“Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book delivers almost as much fun as the film itself.”
“Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.”
Source: The Celestine Prophecy
“Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.”
“Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.”
“Loving and trusting an another person is a reckless thing. Even insane.”
“Loving and working relationships bring so much joy into our lives! We need to work on our relationships like a garden; toiling the soil for a solid foundation, planting the seeds to slowly grow into a flower, daily water and weeding to maintain growth, and making adjustments when the relationship is in full bloom. Sadly, there are times when the plot of land dries up, nothing will grow, and it’s time to move on. Our dreams of the nighttime can be used as maintenance in all our relationships.”
Source: Learn the Secret Language of Dreams
“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.”
“Loving another soul and devoting life to a loved one’s happiness is the easiest way to enlightenment.”
Source: Just Love Her
“Loving anything is bound to the pain of losing it.”
Source: Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
“Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.”
“Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.”
“Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.”
Source: Home to Holly Springs
“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.”
Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.”
“Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.”
“Loving confers no rights”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine