#leads

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

#disaster #even #every #eyes #into

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#another #another way #anywhere #being #being afraid

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#chemistry #completely #complex #difficulty #equations

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#chooses #determines #end #leads #means

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #best #both #campfire #cast

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#bleeds #country #every #familiar #leads

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. ↗

— Paul Getty

#leads #nostalgia #often #speculation

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. ↗

— Andre Gide

#follow #good #leads #long #own

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with. ↗

— Joe Morton

#business #challenges #complications #deal #enjoy