Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Ka-shing

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Lewis Mumford

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Lewis Thomas

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Lewis Thomas

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

Leonard Peltier

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

Leonard Nimoy

The means of many outweigh the means of the few or one.

Leonard Nimoy

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

Leonard Nimoy

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Leonard Nimoy

Whatever I have given, I have gained.

Leonard Nimoy

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

Leonard Nimoy

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

Leonard Nimoy

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

Leonard Nimoy

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

Leonard Nimoy

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

Leonard Nimoy

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.

Leonard Nimoy

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

Leonard Nimoy

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

Leonard Nimoy

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

Leonard Nimoy

When you let me take I'm grateful. When you let me give I'm blessed.

Leonard Nimoy

We are all children searching for love.

Leonard Nimoy

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

Leonard Nimoy

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Lawrence Block

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

Lawrence Durrell

Music is only love looking for words.

Laura Schlessinger

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Elder

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Larry Ellison

Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

Larry Ellison

I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.