Lead Quotes
4325 quotes by 3022 authors
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Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think…
— Stephen Dunn
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I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to…
— Oprah Winfrey
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If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the…
— Dean Koontz
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If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard…
— Carter G. Woodson
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Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared…
— Karl Popper
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I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship.…
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for…
— James E. Faust
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I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or…
— Bill Bryson
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I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father…
— Steve Martin
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Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at…
— Elizabeth Berg
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour…
— Thomas Hardy
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Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
— Fran Lebowitz
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True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
— Vladimir Lenin
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The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and…
— Margaret Mitchell
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[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).
— Neil Postman
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A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a…
— Daniel Handler
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I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Who Wrote These Lead Quotes
3,022 authors contributed a total of 4,325 Lead Quotes, led by these top contributors: