Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Vance Havner

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Steve Martin

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea Ballou

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
Milan Kundera

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Elias Canetti

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
Dalton Trumbo

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Plutarch

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.
Ken Russell

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.
Darren L. Johnson

Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
Zach Wamp

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Garrett Hardin

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
Mary Renault

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton