#lit

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#bits #chicken #clock #discrete #dishwasher

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#arab #arab world #china #economic #effectively

When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility. ↗

— Matt Lauer

#articles #because #been #finger #i

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. ↗

— William Laud

#church #churches #down #heads #held

If people lived to be a thousand years old, there’d be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics. Think how far behind unmotivated and lazy people lag now after only 65 years on earth, and then multiply that by 15.
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— Jarod Kintz

#class #classism #earth #genetics #inequality

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #entertainment #readers #reading #solitude

I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#back #because #give #i #i think

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#any #business #cannot #chair #considerations

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#balance #faculties #fundamental #genius #health

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#country #duty #expending #finance #government