#leading

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. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#ability #accurate #area #blanche #carte

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cows #even #i #i think #leading

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. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#hall #holding #leading #little #marxist

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. ↗

— Adam Smith

#ambition #desire #directing #great #instrument

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#beginning #between #could #immediately #misleading

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#any #crazy #dance #drive #dude

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#chops #down #front #frustrating #gets

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. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#church #i #jesus #jesus christ #lead

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#any #been #busy #costume #culture

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. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#berlin wall #cold #cold war #coming #demise