Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
God is never on the sidelines of His children's lives. He goes before them. He leads them, guides them, protects and saves them.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.
I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.
When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'
I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.
I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.
