#mit

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#comfort #economy #embrace #happiness #i

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#fit #himself #microscope #passion #seen

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#desert #i #i can #outside #people

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#conformity #earth #find #i #i am

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#class #classics #literature #machinery #medicine

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#clearly #individuals #limiting #teaches #think

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#communications #get #global #help #how

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#admit #chinese #farmers #feel #goal

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself. ↗

— Ang Lee

#being honest #big #big issue #commit #honest