The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
I love you, mom.
Clarence Lackey
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish, and almost unwearable.
Christian Lacroix
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love,
compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere
motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
Dalai Lama
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai Lama
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If
we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this,
happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime
ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
Dalai Lama
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day
arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated
philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal
responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth
or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama
A child's a plaything for an hour.
Charles Lamb
In the gradual desuetude of old observances, this custom of solemnizing our proper birth-day hath nearly passed away, or
is left to children, who reflect nothing at all about the matter, nor understand any thing in it beyond cake and orange.
Charles Lamb
What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
William Lamb
To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It's really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
Angela Lansbury
Laozi - See
Lao Tzu
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
News briefing on December 21, 2012.
Wayne LaPierre
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Philip Larkin
Fuck your butt of sack.
Philip Larkin
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how
they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Philip Larkin
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip Larkin
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
Philip Larkin
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
Larry - See
Harry V. Quadracci
Observing your own and your competitor's successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.
Estée Lauder
The more you talk and listen to a bad character the more you lose your dislike for him.
Henry Lawson
Lesley Lawson - See
Twiggy
Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.
Geraldine Laybourne
I've always favoured proposition over opposition.
Jack Layton
LBJ - See
Lyndon B. Johnson
Archibald Alexander Leach - See
Cary Grant
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Edmund Leach
Tune in, turn on, drop out.
Timothy Leary
Why not? Yeah.
Timothy Leary
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
I understand, of course, that many people find smoking objectionable. That is their right. I would, I assure you, be the very last to criticize the
annoyed. I myself find many - even most - things objectionable. Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like aftershave
lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up
signs. In private I avoid such people; in public they have the run of the place. I stay at home as much as possible, and so should they. When it is necessary,
however, to go out of the house, they must be prepared, as I am, to deal with the unpleasant personal habits of others. That is what public
means.
Fran Lebowitz
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.
Barbara Lee
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that
we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Barbara Lee
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Blaine Lee
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
As you think, so shall you become.
Bruce Lee
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the
function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into
your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only
light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee
Real living is living for others.
Bruce Lee
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Bruce Lee
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Bruce Lee
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee
Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
Franz Lehár
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
As usual, there's a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
Yes, I am.
While sitting in a police car on the way to a hospital, after officers asked him if he were John Lennon.
John Lennon
I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
Of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other.
Mikhail Lermontov
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty
years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
I once said cynically of a politician, He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson
Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
The simplest toy, on which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson
The conduct of successful business merely consists in doing things in a very simple way, doing them regularly, and never neglecting to do them.
William Lever
The man who whispers down a well
About the goods he has to sell
Will not make as many dollars
As the man who climbs the tree and hollers!
William Lever
We sometimes take for granted the freedom and power of independent thought and action. And only after
it's been compromised, do we fully realize how fundamental it is to the pursuit of economic opportunity.
Arthur Levitt
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not
recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words to action.
Theodore Levitt
Creativity is thinking new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the
stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is
a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be
satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
C. S. Lewis
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.
Rush Limbaugh
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low
points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
Rush Limbaugh
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
Jeremy Lin
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
Abraham Lincoln
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all
of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
In regards to this great Book (the Bible), I have but
to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for
it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
Abraham Lincoln
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is
for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who
molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.
Abraham Lincoln
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
They won't think anything about it.
After Mary Todd Lincoln asked him what the patrons of Ford's Theater might think of two old people holding hands.
Abraham Lincoln
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of
affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
First Inaugural Address. March 4, 1861.
Abraham Lincoln
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann
Malcolm Little - See
Malcolm X
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a
long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Émile Littré
I've found that when it came to doing something I loved and fighting for it, things
worked out. If you're going to kill yourself to develop something, you've got to enjoy it.
Jeanine Lobell
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
In the Harbor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled by great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you ask one friend to dine,
Give him your best wine!
When you ask two,
The second best will do!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You're fired!
No other words can so easily and succinctly reduce a
confident, self-assured executive to an insecure, groveling shred of his former self.
Frank P. Louchheim
Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?
Louis XIV
I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my
death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
Louis XVI
A King should die standing.
Louis XVIII
I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms.
Louise
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail.
Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born, the morning-stars their ancient music make.
James Russell Lowell
Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell
Íñigo López de Loyola
- See Ignatius
Octavio Paz Lozano - See
Octavio Paz
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
E. V. Lucas
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry Luce
He was the consummate politician. He didn't lie, neither did he tell the truth.
John Lundberg
Anyone who says we're in a recession, or heading into one - especially the worst one
since the Great Depression - is making up his own private definition of recession.
Spoken the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The Washington Post on September 14, 2008.
Donald Luskin
I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.
Jessica Lynch
It is a characteristic of committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection
of them and that every member's recollection differs violently from every other member's recollection.
Jonathan Lynn
I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to
afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
Natasha Lyonne
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when
it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
Oliver Lyttelton
