#lit

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#bad one #i #just #little #ocean

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#found #hatred #life #mankind #philosophy

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#allow #between #corrupt #democrats #difference

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor. ↗

— Carl Levin

#armor #body #capability #civilians #common

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#belief #building #common #common belief #delivering

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#enslavement #entails #free #freedom #must

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #avoid #back #bed #better

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#centrality #competition #hand #issues #market

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#democracy #handle #hard #people #regime

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#defined #imitation #imperfect #insight #literature