Lead Quotes
4325 Lead quotes by 2911 unique authors
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All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't,…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and…
— Aldous Huxley
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Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But…
— Margaret Atwood
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He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could…
— Michael Ondaatje
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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
— Paulo Coelho
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You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up.…
— Max Lucado
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[I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my lungs were made…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even…
— Bertrand Russell
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Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the…
— Kenneth Grahame
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It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You…
— Frank Herbert
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Love is one of the most intense feelings felt by man; another is hate. Forcing yourself to feel indiscriminate love is very unnatural. If you…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
— John Green
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Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then…
— Peter Singer
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Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will…
— Julia Quinn
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There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road…
— D. J. MacHale
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It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead…
— Sean Covey
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the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.
— Bob Marley
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If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.
— Anton Chekhov
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared…
— Howard Zinn
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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them…
— Terry Pratchett
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
— Adrienne Rich
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