| Lennart Nilsson |  I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.
Lennart Nilsson |
| Lenny Kravitz | My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
Lenny Kravitz |
| Leo Ornstein | I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
Leo Ornstein |
| Leo Rosten | The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten |
| Leo Strauss | God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
Leo Strauss |
| Leo Tolstoy | And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy |
| Leo Tolstoy | If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy |
| Leon Askin | 1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
Leon Askin |
| Leonard Nimoy | Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
Leonard Nimoy |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci |
| Leonhard Euler | Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Leonhard Euler |
| Leonid Andreyev | The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
Leonid Andreyev |
| Les Brown | When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown |
| Leslie Charteris | The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
Leslie Charteris |
| Leslie Fiedler | The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
Leslie Fiedler |
| Leslie Nielsen | The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
Leslie Nielsen |
| lessen | 'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.' |
| Lester Bangs | That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.
Lester Bangs |
| Lew Wasserman | I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
Lew Wasserman |
| Lewis Carroll | That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
Lewis Carroll |
