Quotes about la
lasts appearance last-day
God has saved you to make your appearance in the last days. Gordon B. Hinckley
language-of-love quiet language
Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God. Gordon B. Hinckley
land recipes world
My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone. Gladys Taber
law divine existence
Labor is the divine law of our existence. Giuseppe Mazzini
law next immigration
Next, we will create a modern immigration law. Gerhard Schroder
laughing soul facts
The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing. Gerard Butler
laughter men laughing
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. Horace
laughing age gone
It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.] Horace
latin welcome hours
Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for. Horace
latin arguing
The grammarians are arguing. Horace
latin mind path
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace
language universal-language universal
Music truly is the universal language. Herbie Hancock
law practice clear-head
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless. Herbert Spencer
law speech utterance
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement. Herbert Spencer
law organization long
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres. Herbert Spencer
law giving survival
The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival. Herbert Spencer
laughter men thinking
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. Herman Melville
land safety infinite
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Herman Melville
land sky nurse
Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. Herman Melville
law order winking
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. Herman Melville
laughing may pessimism
If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh. Herman Melville
laughter laughing good-things
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing. Herman Melville
laughter adventure laughing
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Herman Melville
land cities two
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative. Herb Caen
land rivers lakes
What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted. Henry David Thoreau
lasts should ennui
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui. Henry David Thoreau
land giving want
As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct. Henry David Thoreau
law unjust disobedience
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them? Henry David Thoreau
language mint pursuit
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint. Henry David Thoreau
laughter doctors silence
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure. Henry David Thoreau
land sea quality
All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet. Henry David Thoreau
land earth theme
New earths, new themes expect us. Henry David Thoreau
law giving use
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. Henry David Thoreau