It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.
The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.
Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end.
But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.
Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.
...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
It’s a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
Now see, if it were me, I wouldn’t have led with that. I would’ve gone with something like ‘G’day’ or ‘Wow, aren’t you a little hottie?
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
