#upon

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#gifts #gratitude #knack #nothing #people

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#books #come #could #exist #i

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#couple #culture #decides #depends #history

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#better #capable #chance #existence #fact

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#body #cell #created #creating #dies

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ↗

— Doug Larson

#being #called #consumption #dog #eaten

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#cannot #country #despite #destroyed #fate

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#bad #decidedly #depend #friends #good

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. ↗

— William Law

#intent #perfection #present #upon

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death