Leaden Quotes

29 quotes by 29 authors

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate… — Jeremy Rifkin
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They… — Alexander Pope
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. — John Milius
The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. — Hilaire Belloc
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of… — Emma Lazarus
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be… — Peter Medawar
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their… — Jean de la Bruyere
Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of… — Emma Goldman
To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed. — Felix Frankfurter
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the… — Richard M. Nixon
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no… — Terry Pratchett
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and… — Will Self
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. — Virginia Woolf
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the… — Chris Cleave
you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all,… — Gregory David Roberts

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