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Fiorello Henry La Guardia
"I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly."
"I think the reporter should get his facts straight before he distorts them."
"The devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant."
"There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets."
"To the victor belongs the responsibility of good government."
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Anne Lamott
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
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Michael Landon
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."
"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."
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Lao-tzu
"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty."
"We listen to it and do not hear it; Its name is The Inaudible."
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Eva Lassman
[Holocaust survivor, 1919-2011]
"When we are able to instill in people a desire to respect and be tolerant of all humanity, we may eventually have peace. If not, we will continue to experience the inhumanity of war and terrorism, and the deaths of children and other innocent victims of violence."
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D. H. Lawrence
* "Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't."
* "Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out."
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Albert Lee
"I don't care enough to care about why I don't care."
[age 23 in 2004, on voting]
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Robert E. Lee
"But feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that must have attended the continuance of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen." [in General Order No. 9, announcing his surrender]
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Madeleine L'Engle
"I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love."
"We rebel against the impossible. I sense a wish in some professional religion-mongers to make God possible, to make him comprehensible to the naked intellect, domesticate him so that he's easy to believe in. Every century the Church makes a fresh attempt to make Christianity acceptable. But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol."
"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
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John Lennon
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
Madeleine L'Engle
"I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love."
"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
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John Lennon
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
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Doris Lessing
* "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."
* "Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this."
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Oscar Levan
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." [ascribed]
Oscar Levan
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." [ascribed]
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C.S. Lewis
* "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less."
* "I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands ‘Thus saith the Lord’, it lies, and lies dangerously." ["Willing Slaves of the Welfare State" (1958)]
* "Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts…" [The Screwtape Letters]
* "In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled." ["Willing Slaves of the Welfare State" (1958)]
"Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?" ["Willing Slaves of the Welfare State" (1958)]
* "No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened." [The Great Divorce]
* "Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling, `Thank God, even they aren’t quite so bad as that,’ or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally, we shall insist on seeing everything - God and our friends and ourselves included - as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred." [Mere Christianity]
"The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?" ["Willing Slaves of the Welfare State" (1958)]
"What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week?" [The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis]
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G. Gordon Liddy
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."
Abraham LincolnG. Gordon Liddy
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."
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"And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."
* "Our popular Government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled - the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains - its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal except to ballots themselves at succeeding elections. Such will be a great lesson of peace, teaching men that what they can not take by an election neither can they take it by a war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war." [Special Session Message, July 4, 1861]
* "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
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Vince Lombardi
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
"The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor."
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George Lois
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything."
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Martin Luther
"By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?"
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John Lyly
"He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose."
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Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr.
"Cynicism--the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."
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