Lead Quotes - page 4

water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. (Vitruvius)
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. View quote
Euripides
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. View quote
John Stuart Mill
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. View quote
Kenneth Rexroth
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future. View quote
Alfred Jodl
One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations. View quote
Winston Churchill
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. (John Keats)
Never say ‘no' to adventures. Always say ‘yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life. View quote
Ian Fleming
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. View quote
Socrates
In sum, the processes of evolution create initially comparatively simple dynamical systems on particular levels of organisation. The processes then lead to the progressive complexification of the existing systems and, ultimately, to the creation of simpler systems on the next higher organisational level, where complexification begins anew. Thus evolution moves from the simpler to the more complex, and from the lower to the higher level of organisation. View quote
Ervin László
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. View quote
Martha Beck
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. View quote
Pierre Loti
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. View quote
Stan Laurel
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. View quote
Tadao Ando
Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead. View quote
Tilman J. Fertitta
You can't regret the life you didn't lead. View quote
Junot Diaz
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life. (Bernie Siegel)
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives. View quote
James Heckman
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better. View quote
Enid Blyton