Quotes of: Lead-role Keyword

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, 'Well, are you a Republican or an American?' The two words serve different concepts an...

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were ve...

The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies

Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we were nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn’t our genetic purpose – to trans...

1Q84

The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of men and women forever. For we have to ask ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that ...

Three Guineas

There were more of out there. More walkers. And I was being asked to step up and be... what? Some kind of Captain Heroism who would lead the boys in the Red, White, and Blue to victory? What was I getting myself into? This wasn't task force duty, thi...

Patient Zero

Imagine the universe is like this cloth.” Philippos said, lifting up an old rag off the ground. “There are thousands of tiny threads woven in tiny, little patterns. If you follow one thread it will lead you to the end, but also you’ll see that ...

Wielding Crimson

Witches just aren’t like that,” said Magrat. “We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead." The other two looked at her wi...

Wyrd Sisters

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent. Love calls you to act when you would really like to wait, and to wait when you would really like to act. Love calls you to stop when you really want to...

Paul David Tripp

Isabelle: [last lines; at the part Isabelle smiles as she watches Hugo doing magic tricks, she sits and starts writing in her notebook] [voice over] Isabelle: Once upon a time, I met a boy named Hugo Cabret. He lived in a train station. Why did he li...

Hugo

The Natural Law of Cause and Effect. (KARMA) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Our world will be a much better place to live, if such natural law of cause and effect can be widely acknowledged, taught, and respected. Also, wh...

Angie Karan

Your inner voice and the spiritual guidance...will lead you to your goal.

Chakras: Key to Spiritual Opening

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

Captive

Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.

Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.

Can You Keep a Secret?

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates, Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

Dragon Champion

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter. the Tai Chi instructor

Fatigue Artist

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

Fairest

Life was created simple and it is important to live it as such. Simplicity is inherent; it leads to peace of mind and tranquility.

Flashes of Thought