Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!
I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.
Normally, if you have a huge category that leads a bear market all the way down to the bottom - like tech after 2000, or energy in the '80-'82 bear market - you get one quick pop, and then years of lag as we fight the old war.
Writing only leads to more writing.
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests.
The authority of a life for Christ always has greater influence than the authority of talking. A young person can possess all of the benefits of authority - influence, respect, and strength - just by following Jesus wherever he leads.
Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles.
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
I like movies because I've been getting leads, and TV is more about ensemble casts.
The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.
The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
A lot of goals are scored when defenders lose their concentration for a split second and a forward makes a run in behind or gets that one extra step that leads to a shot.
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
The status quo leads to self-destruction.
I'm not a documentarian. I'm not a photojournalist.