King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
~By Warren Christopher ~
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
~By Omar Bongo ~
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
I'm not a leading guy.
~By Steve Zahn ~
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
~By Al Sharpton ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.
~By Peter Hain ~
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
~By Kit Bond ~
Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
~By Deng Xiaoping ~
I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
~By Henri Poincare ~
I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.
~By Robert Mitchum ~
I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.
~By Roma Downey ~
I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.
~By David Milne ~
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
~By Cesar Romero ~
Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.
~By Henry W. Kendall ~
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
~By Voltaire ~
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
~By Anita Brookner ~
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
~By Alec Guinness ~
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
~By J. F. C. Fuller ~
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
~By Michael Shermer ~
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
~By E. B. White ~
The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
~By Dave Barry ~
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
~By Edward Steichen ~
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
~By Deborah Cox ~
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
~By Josef Albers ~
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
~By Maude Adams ~
In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
~By John Corbett ~
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.
~By Richard Petty ~
For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
~By Donald Johanson ~
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
~By Mercedes Lackey ~
When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.
~By Kevin Costner ~
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
~By Ralph Boston ~
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
~By John Ruskin ~
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.
~By Lincoln Chafee ~
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
~By A. J. Liebling ~
There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
~By Colin Hay ~
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
~By Ron Paul ~
In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
~By Luke Ford ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.
~By Louis Freeh ~
When you're leading, don't talk.
~By Thomas Dewey ~
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
~By Bernard Ebbers ~
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
~By Peter Shaffer ~
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.
~By Shawn Wayans ~
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
~By Frank Church ~
The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
~By Donald L. Carcieri ~
I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.
~By Alessandro Del Piero ~
Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?
~By Mike Epps ~
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
~By Ed Markey ~
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.
~By Tim Holden ~
Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.
~By Rick Perry ~
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
~By William H. Macy ~
I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.
~By Martina Navratilova ~
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
~By Neal Boortz ~
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~By Colin Powell ~
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.
~By Richard Ernst ~
An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
~By John Shimkus ~
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
~By Ferdinand Christian Baur ~
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
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