I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.
~By Pat Summerall ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.
~By David Walker ~
The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.
~By Gerd von Rundstedt ~
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
~By Melinda Gates ~
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
~By Bob Graham ~
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
~By Larry Hovis ~
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 ~
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 ~
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
~By Muriel Spark ~
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
~By Anita Brookner ~
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 ~
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
~By Carlos Castaneda ~
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 ~
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
~By E. B. White ~
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 ~
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
~By Gene Tierney ~
When you're leading, don't talk.
~By Thomas Dewey ~
Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
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 ~
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
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 World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
~By Alec Guinness ~
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
~By Adam Smith ~
My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
~By David Amram ~
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
~By Julian Assange ~
Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.
~By Lee Krasner ~
Once again we have misleading climate change pronouncements being based on data errors, data errors detected by non-UN, non-IPCC, non-peer-reviewed external observers. This is exactly what happens when you base your arguments on 'consensus science' and not scientific fact.
~By Doug L. Hoffman ~
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
~By Ernst Toller ~
We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
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 ~
As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.
~By David Kay ~
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
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 ~
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
~By James Meade ~
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
~By Christine Pelosi ~
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
~By James Boswell ~
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
~By Russell Baker ~
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 ~
Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.
~By Thomas Jane ~
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
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 ~
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
~By Lorna Luft ~
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 ~
In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him.
~By William Rowley ~
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.
~By Peter Weir ~
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 ~
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
~By M. H. Abrams ~
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 ~
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
~By Edward Abbey ~
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 ~
Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
~By William H. Macy ~
I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
~By Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ~
I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.
~By Brion James ~
Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
~By Osama bin Laden ~
It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
~By Mark Rydell ~
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
~By Charles de Lint ~
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 ~
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
~By George William Norris ~
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
~By Kenneth Kaunda ~
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 ~
First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?
~By Ed Helms ~
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 ~
Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
~By Mitt Romney ~
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
~By Joseph Needham ~
Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
~By Tea Leoni ~
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 ~
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
~By A. J. Liebling ~
Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
~By Ian Smith ~
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 ~
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
~By Seth Godin ~
When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.
~By Christina Milian ~
I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.
~By Rupert Sheldrake ~
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
~By Al Sharpton ~
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.
~By Peter Sarsgaard ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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