Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
Ben Harper

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
William Westmoreland

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
Wendell Willkie

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
Don Shula

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
David Rockefeller

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Edward Hopper

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.
Kenny G

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sidney Sheldon

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Elizabeth Bowen

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.
Nicolas Cage

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
Antonio Tabucchi

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
Sylvester Stallone

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
Merle Haggard