Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lytton Strachey

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

Lynne Truss

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

Lysander Spooner

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Louis Zamperini

Never give up, no matter what.

Louis Zamperini

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Louis Zamperini

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

Louisa May Alcott

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Lou Holtz

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

Lou Holtz

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

John Green

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

John Goodman

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

John Gay

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

John Ford

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

John Flanagan

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

Lisa Gardner

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Lionel Blue

I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

Lionel Trilling

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Lindsey Vonn

I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

Linus Roache

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

Linus Torvalds

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Lindsey Buckingham

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

Lindsey Graham

I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt

Lindsay Lohan

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

Linda Hamilton

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

Lil' Romeo

You can never give up. With love, anything is possible.

Lil Wayne

Nobody gives you a chance, you got to take chances.

Lil Wayne

I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back

Lil Wayne

No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.