#wit

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#administration #american #american people #ask #billions

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ↗

— Doug Larson

#elation #feel #real #standing #star

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contribute #destruction #forces #side #social

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#appearance #called #fifteen #high #however

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance. ↗

— Max von Laue

#complete #did #initially #major #meet

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#beginning #day #first #gets #habit

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#bad #because #complaining #confident #fail

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#back #exchange #i #i have learned #just

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#fusion #union #without

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#calories #cheat #could #day #drop