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1. "Let them hate me, as long as they fear me."

Anon.

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Friendship and Hostility


2. "Let us be realistic and demand the impossible."

graffito - Paris 1968

categories: Reality and Imagination -:- Inscriptions etc.


3. "Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do."

Michel de Montaigne

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Destiny and Fate


4. "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Politics and Diplomacy


5. "Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success."

David O. McKay

categories: Success and Fame -:- Work and Laziness


6. "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky."

Boris Yeltsin

categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy


7. "Liberal - a power worshipper without power."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Power and Weakness


8. "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."

William Ewart Gladstone

categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Trust


9. "Liberty is always unfinished business."

Anon.

categories: Freedom and Servitude



10. "Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

categories: Freedom and Servitude


11. "Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

categories: Freedom and Servitude


12. "Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery."

William Penn

categories: Freedom and Servitude


13. "Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."

Henri-Frederic Amiel

categories: Justice


14. "Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Reality and Imagination


15. "Life + Desire = Man; Life - Desire = God"

Sathya Sai Baba

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- God and Religion -:- Human


16. "Life begins at forty."

Walter B. Pitkin, "Life begins at forty"

categories: Life and Death -:- Youth and Age


17. "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

categories: Life and Death


18. "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

Josh Billings

categories: Life and Death


19. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

George Bernard Shaw, "The Doctor's Dilemma"

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Life and Death -:- Wit and Humor


20. "Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties."

Sir James Jeans, "Mysterious Universe"

categories: Life and Death



21. "Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be - a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

Margaret Anderson, "The Fiery Fountains"

categories: Life and Death


22. "Life gives you a kick and then with a smile, asks: Is there too much it hurt?"

Kazimierz Matan

categories: Life and Death -:- Pain and Tears


23. "Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Life and Death -:- Knowledge, Ignorance


24. "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Life and Death


25. "Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."

Irving Berlin

categories: Life and Death


26. "Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it."

Louis Leo Holtz

categories: Life and Death


27. "Life is a balancing of differences."

Anon.

categories: Life and Death


28. "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Reinhold Niebuhr, "Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic"

categories: God and Religion -:- Intellect, Judgement -:- Life and Death


29. "Life is a business that does not cover the costs."

Arthur Schopenhauer

categories: Life and Death


30. "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

Horace Walpole

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Life and Death


31. "Life is a dead-end street."

Henry Louis Mencken

categories: Life and Death



32. "Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Life and Death


33. "Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

Victor Hugo

categories: Life and Death -:- Love


34. "Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Christopher Morley, "Thunder on the Left"

categories: Life and Death


35. "Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire"

categories: Life and Death


36. "Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on what he is made of."

Josh Billings

categories: Life and Death


37. "Life is a horizontal fall."

Jean Cocteau, "Opium"

categories: Life and Death


38. "Life is a jar, where the honey is just a thin layer on top."

Kazimierz Matan

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Life and Death


39. "Life is a long lesson in humility."

James M. Barrie

categories: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics


40. "Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirious of living more do we really live."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Life and Death


41. "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

categories: Life and Death -:- Time and Passing


42. "Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness."

Rémy De Gourmont, "Selected Writings"

categories: Life and Death



43. "Life is a suicide mission."

Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind"

categories: Life and Death


44. "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Charlie Chaplin

categories: Life and Death


45. "Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Peter De Vries

categories: Life and Death -:- Nature and Animals


46. "Life is an echo. What you send out - you get back. What you give - you get."

Anon.

categories: Life and Death


47. "Life is an effort that deserves a better cause."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

categories: Life and Death


48. "Life is an equation with an infinite number of unknowns."

Kazimierz Matan

categories: Life and Death


49. "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

Helen Keller

categories: Life and Death -:- Bravery and Fear


50. "Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

Anon.

categories: Life and Death -:- Love

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