Dalessandro Leon Quotes

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. ~ Leon Kass

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

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style. ~ Andre Leon Talley

She lengthened her stride, aware at every step of how long she'd been sitting at a desk and how much her body rejoiced in this simple act of walking on the beach in the sun. ~ Donna Leon

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps ... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service. ~ Leon Trotsky

I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursday and then go to Saudi Arabia and get his financial help on a Saturday. ~ Leon Charney

If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal. ~ Leon Brown

It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia ... It is for a revolution of our own. ... If Europe were to become once more the Europe of bankers, of fat corrupt bourgeoisies we should prefer Communism to win and destroy everything. We would rather have it all blow up than see this rottenness resplendent. Europe fights in Russia because it [i.e., Fascist Europe] is Socialist. what interests us most in the war is the revolution to follow The war cannot end without the triumph of Socialist revolution. ~ Leon Degrelle

Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her. ~ Donna Leon

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. ~ Leon Jouhaux

A wall of books is a wall of windows. ~ Leon Wieseltier

Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz! ~ Andre Leon Talley

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

A man in whom violence boiled below the surface in much the same way that fresh-poured polenta waited for the chance to burn the mouth of anyone who tried to eat it. ~ Donna Leon

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it. ~ Leon Brown

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature. ~ David F. D'Alessandro

By April another spring had come to the gentle lands of the Mediterranean Sea, bringing with it fine flying weather for birds and men. ~ Leon Wolff

Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world. ~ Leon Panetta

Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays with time and form, therefore the three factors are as one of biogeographic concern. ~ Leon Croizat

When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance. ~ Leon Festinger

I'm sorry," Leon said. "I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're flying around somewhere in the sky, zipping here and there and being spirits and happy. But you and I and three billion other people are not, and until it changes here it won't be enough, Phil; not enough. Despite the supreme heavenly father. He has to do something for us here, and that's the truth. If you believe in the truth--well, Phil, that's the truth. The harsh, unpleasant truth. ~ Philip K. Dick

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle. ~ Daniel De Leon

I would remember them forever–their names, my reasons, the way their bodies slumped in death and their eyes stared through me. If I stopped, if I let their deaths weigh me down and keep me from being Opal, it was all for nothing. There was no going back. I was what I was, and they were a part of me now. ~ Linsey Miller

I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful. ~ Andre Leon Talley

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific. ~ Leon Panetta

Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh. ~ Leon R. Kass

Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change. ~ Leon Brown

The vision always precedes reality. ~ Leon Tom

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months. ~ Leon Max

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process. ~ Bernardino Leon

Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit. ~ Leon Bloy

I'm not big on commissions. ~ Leon Panetta

Austrian U-boat commander named Georg von Trapp, later to gain eternal renown when played by Christopher Plummer in the film The Sound of Music, fired two torpedoes into a large French cruiser, the Leon Gambetta. The ship sank in nine minutes, killing 684 sailors. "So that's what war looks like!" von Trapp wrote in a later memoir. He told his chief officer, "We are like highway men, sneaking up on an unsuspecting ship in such a cowardly fashion. ~ Erik Larson

I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt. ~ Leon Panetta

God gave you a heart to love with, not to hate with, God gave you the ability to create Heaven on earth, not Hell. ~ Leon Brown

I never got over the horror of watching their graduation ceremonies, performed before their parents. After a demonstration of 'military prowess' and personal courage the ceremony ended with their biting off the heads of snakes. As the blood dripped down their chins, they roasted the dead animals for a victory feast. Other schools had the children strangle puppies and drink their blood. ~ Leon Uris

My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in. ~ Leon Bridges

I used to think if I could be free I should be the happiest woman," a young Mississippi woman recalled. "But when my master come to me, and says 'Lizzie, you is free!' it seems like I was in a kind of daze. And when I would wake up in the morning I would think to myself, Is I free? Hasn't I got to get up before daylight and go into the field and work? ~ Leon F. Litwack

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials. ~ Leon Jouhaux

F you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he can't have sex, he's going to be obsessive about the subject. Then to give him the power to tell other people how to run their sex lives, well, that's just asking for trouble. In a way, it's like having a blind person teach Art History, isn't it? ~ Donna Leon

I would like to speak 10 languages. ~ Leon Redbone

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

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love. ~ Andre Leon Talley

and the righteous cowed and the evil grew bold. ~ Leon Uris