Quotes About Leith

#1. Courage like Daniel's only comes from God." Leith leaned a hand against the tabletop. "Daniel didn't keep praying and trusting because he had courage. He had courage because he prayed and trusted.

Tricia Mingerink

#2. I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

Dexter Fletcher

#3. Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.

Antony Gormley

#4. I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.

Jamie Sives

#5. It's the digitals. Leith has that word he uses for the shift from analogs to digitals. That word he uses about eleven times an hour.

David Foster Wallace

#6. My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."
Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire

Shirley Hazzard

#7. I came across a Haida saying that had etched itself into my memory banks: 'Joy is a well-made object, equaled only to the joy of making it.

Adam Leith Gollner

#8. The significant mistake of the traditionalists is they require the people to start where the church is instead of the church starting where the people are. Innovators begin by asking, 'What do we need to do to reach the people where they are?'

Leith Anderson

#9. You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.

Lady Gaga

#10. Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.

Sasha Azevedo

#11. Progress has not brought about universal happiness ...

Adam Leith Gollner

#12. Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth.

Adam Leith Gollner

#13. The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

Adam Leith Gollner

#14. It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

Prue Leith

#15. Avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

Adam Leith Gollner

#16. Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing - whereas you, you're just speaking the plain truth as you see it.

Sam Leith

#17. If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

Charles L. Grant

#18. Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Mignon McLaughlin

#19. Once the pain threshold has been crossed, the spirit grows strong. Everyday desires become meaningless, and man is purified. Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.
Aleph

Paulo Coelho

#20. The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets.

Adam Leith Gollner

#21. Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

Soichiro Honda

#22. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.

Adam Leith Gollner

#23. The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.

Andrew Solomon

#24. There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.

Matthew Pearl

#25. Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

Adam Leith Gollner

#26. When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

Jackie Kay

#27. I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'

Matt Roper

#28. Lotte watched Peter's fingers gently massaging his forehead and felt a wave of affection. The slightest stress - anxiety, embarrassment, confusion - brought his hand to his brow, like a thumb to the mouth of a child.

Prue Leith

#29. Music should always be just a celebration.

K-Maro

#30. There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely ... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Angelina Jolie

#31. I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.

Ian McDiarmid

#32. The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#33. It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.

Leith Anderson

#34. To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

Adam Leith Gollner

#35. The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.

Leith Anderson

#36. Don't spend time with anyone you don't like.

Prue Leith

#37. When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. 'If you do find paradise,' she said, turning to leave, 'send me a grape.

Adam Leith Gollner

#38. [My guilty pleasure is a] deep, eco-unfriendly, hot bath. Preferably with a glass of champagne and someone sitting on the loo seat gossiping.

Prue Leith

#39. The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide,lost in a forest remote from all human habitation

Franz Kafka