#other

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #coming #did #doubt #each

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#experience #hand #large #nobody #other

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys. ↗

— Joe Lando

#hold #i #lessons #me #now

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength. ↗

— Michael Landon

#give #kids #other #strength #you

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests. ↗

— Serge Lang

#aside #diseases #malaria #other #prevalent

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism. ↗

— Walter Lang

#any #being #concept #lead #person

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings. ↗

— Walter Lang

#depths #does #environment #explore #food

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#antisocial #because #dangerous #develop #doubly

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#cold #difference #events #give #go