Karl Lagerfeld
I think it's better if people turn in their grave than if they rest forever.
Lai Ching-te
The principle of self-determination cannot be erased by brute force.
Alphonse De Lamartine
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Experience is the only guidance of wise men.
There is a woman at the beginning of everything great.
Providence gets lost among the details of human affairs, but becomes clear in the generalities of history.
The people only understand with their emotions. The only orators that can reach them are those who move them.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
Edwin Land
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Ann Landers
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so people don't recognise them.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Jack Lang
Never complain, never explain, never resign.
Lao-tzu
Nature is not human hearted.
He who knows he has enough is rich.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Humility, like water, seeks the lowest place and serves all.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
You are not only responsible for what you do, but also for what you don't do.
The snow goose needs no bath to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Philip LarkinWhat will survive of us is love.
Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.
I have no enemies; but my friends don't like me.
Originality is being different from oneself, not others.
Poetry is nobody's business but the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off.
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Estee Lauder
Trust and love are wonderful, but don't forget the earrings.
Tali Lavi
Trauma collapses time, it freezes and reorders chronology.
Beware the barrage of information, for it can make you numb.
Lynn Lavner
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
D.H.Lawrence
The living moment is everything.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
(Our universe is:) tight, because it is only a continuous extension, a dreary on and on, without any meaning.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
Timothy Leary
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Sometimes I am afraid I might be in paradise already.
Leon Lederman
If the basic idea is too complicated to fit on a T-shirt, it's probably wrong.
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
There go the people - I must follow them, for I am their leader.
Bruce Lee
Knowing is not enough, we must apply; willing is not enough, we must do.
Martin Lee
Failure is not falling down but refusing to stand up.
Tommy Lee
Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
Dennis Lehane
For every solution: a problem. ('Gone, Baby, Gone')
Time is rented ... never owned. ('World Gone By')
The silence of the dead says: Goodbye.
The silence of the missing says: Find me. ('Gone, Baby, Gone')
The only way to conquer fear was to face it. ('Shutter Island')
Heaven wasn't in the clouds; it was the air in your lungs. ('Live by Night')
Successful men had heirs. Working-class men had sons. ('Live by Night')
The foundation of all lives is luck. Luck is life and life is luck. ('Live by Night')
Happiness comes in moments, and then it’s gone until the next time. But sadness settles in.
(“Mystic River”)
A successful man could hide his past, but an unsuccessful man spent the rest of his life trying
not to drown in his. ('the Drop')
Georges Lemaître (on the beginning of the universe)
A day without yesterday.
W.I. Lenin
You take a bayonet and you push. If you hit mush, keep pushing; if you hit steel, you stop.
I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves and makes you want to say stupid and naïve things.
Siegfried Lenz
Imagination dies in times of plenty: there is no uncertainty, no adventure, no challenge to work the mind.
Elmore Leonard
Love in time of war had only moments. (‘Up in Honey's Room')
Good liars spoke in half-truth. (‘Up in Honey's Room')
Opinions're like assholes, everybody's got one. (‘Gold Coast')
Taking chances is the hot sauce you put on life to make it more tangy. (‘Maximum Bob')
Stanislaw Lerzy Lec
Pity one drives into Paradise in a hearse.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
To get to the source you've got to swim against the stream.
John Lennon
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
Gloria Leonard
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
Alessandro Leopardi
Nothing is rarer than a person you can bear around you all the time.
Doris Lessing
We make up our pasts.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nothing is great that is not true.
All truly great people are modest.
Revenge has no attraction to a great mind.
Who doesn't lose his sense over certain things has no sense.
The slowest, who never loses sight of his goal, is still faster than the one who goes about without a goal.
Michael Leunig
Nothing can be loved at speed.
Oscar Levant
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Aaron Levenstein
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
C.S.Lewis
We are what we believe we are.
Joy is the serious business of heaven.
We read to know that we are not alone.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
Debora LewisI paint because no one listens.
Joe E. Lewis
There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.
John Lewis
If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?
Sinclair Lewis
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Ursula von der Leyen (President European Commission)
Being calm does not come as a gift. It comes with hard work.
A democracy can always fail if we don't stand up for it on a daily basis.
We need to change how we treat nature, how we produce and consume, live and work, eat and heat, travel and transport.
Li Zhuang
One cares about etiquette only when his larder is full.
Liu Yuan (Chinese General)
History is a mirror which reflects the present, and the future as well.
History is a genuine depiction of the past, but it never can be completely genuine.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
No use to have a sunrise if we don't get up.
People who read a lot rarely make great discoveries.
To do everything at once destroys everything at once.
Misfortunes are pills you have to swallow and not to chew.
The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
Nothing is more soothing for your soul than not to have an opinion.
To find mistakes in others some people have microscopes for eyes.
Who wants an angel but only looks for wings might end up with a goose.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
I don't know if things will improve if done differently; but they have to be done differently to improve.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Justus von Liebig
Science begins to be really interesting exactly there where she ends.
A.J.Liebling
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Martin Limon
The army treats you like shit when you're alive. But once you're dead, you become a hero. (‘PX Christmas’)
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like a shadow.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him you are his sincere friend.
Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Charles Lindbergh
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Walter Lippmann
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Democracies always have several governments in reserve, whereas autocracies have only one.
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.
John Locke
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
Hermann Löns
Animals kill to live, but we...?
I am proud of the fact that my books don't force you to think.
Men and nature will never agree: we always apply our benchmark, and that is so small.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted.
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time.
The heights by great men reached and kept
were not attained by sudden flight,
but they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upwards in the night.
Jack London
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Erin Longbottom
Criminal justice system is essential to the maintenance of democracy.
Andrea Manuel Lopez
If you already have shoes – why buy more?
Sophia Loren
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Konrad Lorenz
The lies offered to us are less dangerous than all the information withheld.
Rev.Larry Lorenzoni
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
James Lovelock
The world is an entity in which living organisms inextricably feed into the environment. (‘The Revenge of Gaia')
Since the beginning of the nineteenth century we have taken more from the Earth than it could provide. ('The Revenge of Gaia')
Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom is the freedom of those who think differently.