L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.”
“Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your benefit, in terms of figuring out who you are, you gain in the ability to just be whoever you want to be.”
“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.”
“Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.”
“Lucky, are the ugly ones
For they know they are not being loved for their beauty”
Source: The Prose will be forgotten
“Lucky are those, who fight for it.”
“Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.”
“Lucky catch, Fatso!" Casey called. Margaret hated the name Fatso even more than she hated Princess. People in her family jokingly called her Fatso because she was so thin, like father.”
Source: Stay Out of the Basement
“Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. “This isn’t a date.” He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I’d bring Count Chocula for that.”
“Lucky for him, my lips are not smiling alone.”
Source: U-Day
“Lucky for Joan, she was not watching when her devilish sons nearly knocked Layla off her feet in front of Fadden's Mini-Mart.
"How's it going?" Peter winked at Layla as his brother let out a low whistle.
Layla, having just sidestepped Benny Corcoran's admiration, was not prepared for the wily twins' attentions. With an enchanting combination of teenage timidity and self-assurance, she nodded briefly in their direction before ducking into the mini-mart.
"Jaysus. Did you see her?"
"See her? Michael, I think we've just witnessed a miracle.”
Source: Pomegranate Soup
“Lucky for me, all four of his hooves missed my body as they found the ground. I picked my head up, thankful I didn't get stomped, and watched the steer run off along the fence. Mental note: cows are not like horses. Don't let the big brown eyes fool you.”
Source: Lucy's Chance
“Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.”
“Lucky for you, I have another scheme. First I need a hundred ducks, but after that it will be pretty simple."
"What do you need the ducks for?"
"I´m going to put a whole bunch of them in a giant catapult and launch them over Aurimere," Kami said. "This will create a distraction. My message will be: Look at all the ducks I give.”
Source: Unmade
“Lucky Harris was getting to him. His sexy little captive had gotten under his skin. He wanted
her, and yet he could not bring himself to discipline and dominate her as he knew she secretly
desired. For the first time since the death of his traitor wife, Sebastian was afraid, afraid of his own
feelings. The bright-eyed blonde affected him as no woman ever had. It wasn't just her responsive
cries or her tempting body; it was her strong opinions, her outrageous attitude, that irreverent sense of humor. Lucky made him laugh, but it was more than that.
She made him feel alive.”
Source: DeMarco's Captive
“Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.”
Source: Pendennis
“Lucky! I can only eat glitter and rainbows. Darn my sensitive stomach!”
Source: Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great
“Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.”
Source: Imagined World
“Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.”
Source: The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming: In One Volume
“Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.”
“Lucky is the one who misses the wrong train!”
“Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.”
“Lucky is where skill meets persistence.”
“Lucky Justin Timberlake has Jessica Biel. I think she would just be the coolest girl to hang out with.”
“Lucky life isn't one long string of horrors
and there are moments of peace, and pleasure, as I lie in between the blows.”
“Lucky Luke: I wonder how you manage to read with everything that's going on.
Jolly Jumper: By turning the pages just like everyone else.”
Source: The Bridge on the Mississippi
“Lucky me, the producer was arriving, and when he saw me [dressed as an old lady], he didn't know what to think. I told him, 'I'm your grandma here's your lunch, honey,' and I got my first TV show in Mexico.”
“Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication
“Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!”
“Lucky people are the worst.”
Source: Nice Try, Jane Sinner
“lucky people are those whose minds are filled positive expectations of life. their subconscious isn't just passively hoping for good fortune; it is actively convinced that good events happen for them. this mindset isn't just about blind optimism; it's about a deep-seated conviction that shapes their reality. when they face challenges, they see them as opportunities rather than setbacks, and this attitude often leads to more positive outcomes. so, as they wish to be, they ultimately live a happy life filled with positive emotions.”
“Lucky people create, notice and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives. Being in the right place at the right time is actually all about being in the right state of mind.”
“Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.”
Source: Change Your Luck: The Scientific Way to Improve Your Life
“Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.”
“Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.
They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.”
“Lucky people make their own luck.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.”
“Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.”
Source: The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
“Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.”
“Lucky's monologue: "(...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts peniciline and succedanea in a word(...)”
Source: Waiting for Godot
“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“Lucky thing were allies, right? -Finnick Odair”
“Lucky to have been where I have been”
“Lucra la morgă, despuia morţii, le făcea el cu dresuri, îi îmbălsăma, umbla-n om cum ai căta într-un raft.”
Source: Groapa
“Lucrează cu pasiune și vei fi apreciat de o lume întreagă...”
“Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity - brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.”
“Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.”
“Lucrezia had not known it was possible to fall asleep--or, at least, a halfway version of it--on horseback. That you could be riding along, a leading rein stretching from your horse's bridle to the hand of a groomsman, mounted beside you, and your head could tilt forward, slowly, so slowly, and you would believe you were just resting your eyes for a moment, but then you would jerk it upright again and see that the sun had slipped down behind the rocks and the trees had clothed themselves in darkness and the night sky was a black bowl upturned over your head.”
Source: The Marriage Portrait
“Lucrezia knew well that Elisabeth had fallen under Isabella’s malignant thumb, and the usually kind duchess found a mean streak that Lucrezia’s sensative antennae picked up, but did not show.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“Lucrezia’s Borgia instincts and experience had taught her that these moments do not last long, and she lent herself to the festivities wholeheartedly.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance