#hr

It was a hole in one contest and I had a three. ↗

— Abe Lemons

#had #hole #i #three

I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

#thesaurus #three #times #wrote

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#father #i #left #living #road

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#christian faith #communication #factor #faith #generic

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#demands #effect #god #ideas #inasmuch

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#accustomed #back #couple #couple times #course

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#could #eye #eyes #how #long

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag. ↗

— David Letterman

#before #consider #demanding #evidence #example

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dying #pity #death