Leading Quotes

1283 Leading quotes by 1070 unique authors

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical… — Bill Bryson
Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by… — Jose Raul Capablanca
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a… — Siegbert Tarrasch
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one — Mikhail Tal
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the… — Ban Ki-moon
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass… — Julius Caesar
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by… — Ron Paul
If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the… — Margaret Thatcher
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon.… — Ban Ki-moon
From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging… — Ban Ki-moon
I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's… — Frederick Forsyth
Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the… — Bob Dylan
If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing. — Howard G. Hendricks
The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including… — Kishore Mahbubani
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it… — Lester R. Brown
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not… — Alexander Hamilton
If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment… — Unknown Author
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form… — George Washington
Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do. — Judy Grahn
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least… — Oscar Wilde
The creation of this new company supports Intel's intent to maintain its industry-leading position in nonvolatile memory and enables us to rapidly enter a fast-growing… — Paul Otellini

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