Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lev Grossman

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

to enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

Leon Spinks

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.

Leon Spinks

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

Leon Kass

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Leon Panetta

I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Leon Trotsky

Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

Leah Remini

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly

Leah Remini

The decision to leave [the church] is you're giving up everything you've worked for your whole life. I feel that people need to understand this has been my whole life. As time goes on, you start to lose touch with the real world. The mindset becomes us against them.

Laurence Steinberg

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no involvement in decision-making. . . . Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn't mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life.

Laurence Gonzales

To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.

Laurence J. Peter

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Lee Westwood

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

Leigh Hunt

It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

Lauren Tarshis

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

Lauren Weisberger

But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.

Lauren Myracle

When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it. -Sheriff Andy Taylor

Lauren Myracle

I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.

Lauren Oliver

There's always some relief in giving up.

Lauren Oliver

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for....

Lauren Oliver

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

Larry Robinson

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

Larry Page

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

Larry Wall

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Larry Wall

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

Larry Wall

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Laila Ali

I was one of those people who wasn't getting a lot of milk, so I had to pump forever to just get two ounces of milk. But, you know, I wasn't going to give up or stop.

Lakhdar Brahimi

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

Lakshmi Mittal

The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

L. Frank Baum

I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.