Top 100 Quotes About Leon
#1. Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003
Ray Kurzweil
#2. I'm excited to be launching D'Leon Records to support other young talent in their development. I have been very fortunate to have been able to break through and succeed in this tough industry, and this is one of my ways of giving back.
Prince Royce
#3. Yes you are right," said Pavel. "We will succeed simply because we are the best in all of world. We will get LVR by using incredible intelligence."
Leon showed he was in full agreement by screaming and hitting himself repeatedly on the head.
Cuthbert Soup
#4. Oh, dear. He's a pimp and he's stupid, this is not good," Bev mutters. "Leon, leave it to you to find the only stupid pimp in Seattle.
Tara Sivec
#5. Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
C. Wright Mills
#6. I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love.
Leon Bridges
#7. A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.
Brian Greene
#8. Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear."
"Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?"
"I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.
China Mieville
#9. What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?
Tony Blair
#10. My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
Louis Prima
#11. I hope that when girls see my clothes, my shoes, or my outrageous jewelry collection, they feel the thrill of wanting more for themselves too. I love what my friend Andre Leon Talley said: "If you are successful, people want to see it. They want to share in your dream".
Kimora Lee Simmons
#12. Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#13. But Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not
William Gibson
#14. So did you get those for me, Leon?" he asks. He watches as Leon pauses the game and pulls out
B.A. Talarico
#15. Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.
Donatella Versace
#16. The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back. he recovered but he was never the same guy again. He had lost something-innocence of hell. Acid presses a little button in your mind that should never be pressed
Craig Ferguson
#17. It's an alien."
"Sand crab," Leon said. "It won't hurt you."
"It sure is ugly."
"Ugly never hurt a thing."
I scoffed. "Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It's just that pretty hurts more."
"Amen.
Maggie Stiefvater
#18. Averaging the bids to arrive at a final price, the Leon
Marcus Sakey
#19. Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. You look like a decent young man."
Leon didn't smile. "I'm not.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#21. Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.
Robert Moog
#22. Sean: 'People stop giving a shit about what you do with your life after college,'
Leon: 'I'm pretty sure nobody gave a shit about it while you were in college.
Patrick Anderson Jr.
#23. My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family ...
Lucille Kallen
#24. My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
Andrej Pejic
#26. I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.
Gillian Jacobs
#27. If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.
Eric Weiner
#28. The ice," Leon said to thin air over my head, "has now officially broken.
Lili St. Crow
#29. I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.
Kelly Jones
#30. The idea of spending another six hours with Leon and his farts was more than I could take.
John Scalzi
#31. There's nothing wrong with not liking what you don't like. I mean, the Leon Bridges that we played is a little more straight traditionalist. I like the way this plays around with classic sounds, but ...
Stephen W. Thompson
#32. What are you on?' said AJ. 'Leon's mum has died and you are determined to add to the total sum of misery by going out with the girlfriend of the nastiest piece of manhood that was ever assembled in the factory of life ...
Sally Gardner
#33. Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon?"
"What?"
"Half-imaginary.
William Gibson
#34. Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
Pete Hamill
#35. Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too.
Monte Irvin
#36. In Leon's life, or rather, in his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or lied or betrayed. Everyone was celebrated at least in some degree, as though it was a cause for wonder that anyone existed at all.
Ian McEwan
#37. Eventually, Leon's voice limps from his chest and staggers out of his mouth.
Kate Tempest
#38. Leon reads aloud from an article in the Reader's Digest about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass.
Milton Rokeach
#39. The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.
Paul Reiser
#40. The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.
Charles Krauthammer
#41. This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.
Louie Bellson
#42. Leon strolled into the foyer, coming to a complete stop when he saw me holding the blade. "For the love of the gods, who gave that to you?"
I pointed the sharp edge. "Seth."
Seth arched a brow at me. "Wow. Thanks.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#43. My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.
Hillary Scott
#45. Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.
Robert Cormier
#46. None of us can foresee the consequences of such a step." Ponce de Leon ran his fingers through his hair, smoothing it back into place. "Though after centuries of watching mankind, I sometimes suspect intelligence is overrated.
Jim C. Hines
#47. I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.
Peter Hook
#49. Every tiny, happy thing makes me want to share it with you," he went on, leaning forward. "I thought I would get over this, but I can't, and I'm done trying. I understand you like no one else here ever can."
-Leon Grey
Caragh M. O'Brien
#50. Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies.
-- The Eichmann Trial, page 87
Deborah E. Lipstadt
#51. I hope you know Cash is in the kitchen making a to-do list for me and Elliot. You let him play boss for ten minutes and he suddenly thinks he's Hillary Clinton.'~ Leon Montgomery
Destiny Booze
#52. Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player."
"I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.
Steve Hamilton
#53. You see it's like this: the Book tells us most distinctly that 'God is love.' Now it was love that sent Laddie to bind himself for a long, tedious job, to give Leon his horse, wasn't it?
Gene Stratton-Porter
#54. St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.
Peter Kreeft
#55. I woke up the Following morning with the Kings of Leon telling me that "my sex was on fire." I shut off my alarm and that's when all of the memories of the previous night came rushing back.
Kristen Middleton
#56. In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree ... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.
Ian McEwan
#57. So about this Leon god thing? I don't know of any gods named Leon. Is he like the red-headed stepchild god that no one claims?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#58. My image of "a Communist" was not a Soviet bureaucrat but my friend Leon's father, a cabdriver who came home from work bruised and bloody one day, beaten up by his employer's goons (yes, that word was soon part of my vocabulary) for trying to organize his fellow cabdrivers into a union.
Howard Zinn
#59. As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.
Milton Rokeach
#60. Aiden followed my gaze. "Leon, that one there counts half for me. So that's six and a half." Then he pivoted around, heading toward another daimon who had a Guard pinned on the floor.
Leon shrugged. "That's okay. I have ten, loser.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#61. I got that Leon was just looking out for her, so how could anyone really be mad in the end?
J. Peach
#62. I can be loyal, Leon. I know what that is."
He laughed. "Finally, the girl gives me a crumb
Caragh M. O'Brien
#63. Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.
John Scalzi
#64. I don't know what I'd do without you, Leon.
And there it was. That unlocking inside him. That thing only she could do to him. That was why he had come. Why he would always come.
Marry me, he thought.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#65. I believe Leon Panetta genuinely placed America's well-being first and foremost. I never took his politics personally.
Gary J. Byrne
#66. What if AJ Leon's wise words that "this is not your practice life" became the filter for all your decisions?
Srinivas Rao
#67. I admire Kings of Leon. I think their records are amazing. Just from hanging out with them, I can say they're good guys. It's cool to see that they get to do what they love. But I think they clearly have an appreciation for where they came from, and it has shaped who they are.
Nick Jonas
#68. What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever?
And she told him.
Tony Parsons
#69. The evil you create will ultimately destroy you, you cannot escape the consequences of your actions. - Leon Brown
Aleatha Romig
#70. Exchange between Leon and Max:
"I just want you to tell me you love me sometimes."
"Yes, you see I can't do that." He turned his head away. "I love you all the time.
Jodi Taylor
#71. The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.
Leon Brown
#72. when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing?
Donna Leon
#73. There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
Leon Bloy
#74. People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
Leon Bridges
#75. The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
Leon Krier
#76. If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.
Leon Botstein
#78. Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
Leon Askin
#80. Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.
Leon Brown
#81. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Donna Leon
#82. Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.
Leon Brown
#83. Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
Leon Krier
#84. All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
Leon Uris
#85. The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.
Leon Brown
#86. The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
Leon Trotsky
#87. We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti
#88. I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
Andre Leon Talley
#90. The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
Donna Leon
#91. She is smart. She is principled. She is tough, and she is ready. Hillary is the single most experienced and prepared person who has ever run for president.
Leon Panetta
#92. Are you any relation to your brother Marv?
Leon Wood
#93. Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.
Isaac Deutscher
#94. Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.
Francisco Leon
#95. Bite off more than you can chew. Then chew it.
Ella Williams
Leon Logothetis
#96. Most people - however much they might deny it - had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.
Donna Leon
#97. When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.
Leon Brown
#98. My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
Donna Leon
#99. You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.
Leon Brown
#100. Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.
Leon Bridges
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