Latrenda Leonard Quotes

If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you. ~ Leonard Sweet

The reader will have noticed that one no longer treats the siege of Troy as a myth. To do so would be to exhibit a most uncritical mind; even the legends of King Arthur have a historic foundation, and those of the Nibelungen are still more probable. ~ Leonard W. King

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse. ~ James Leonard Gordon

Americans, unknowingly, live part of every day in the house that Satch built. ~ Leonard Feather

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.' ~ Buck Leonard

Let's not argue about it, let's study it. ~ Leonard

As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another. ~ Leonard Sweet

MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace ... Keeping the peace means no more than prohibiting persons from unpeaceful actions ... When government goes beyond this, that is, when government prohibits peaceful actions, such prohibitions themselves are, prima facie, unpeaceful. ~ Leonard E. Read

Torrance uses the analogy of an embrace. When we hug someone, there is a double movement. We open our arms and in so doing give ourselves to the beloved. But in the embrace we also draw that person close to us...One hand, Christ, opens the relationship, the other hand, the Holy Spirit draws us into that relationship with the Father. ~ Leonard J. Vander Zee

There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves. ~ George Leonard

We don't preach salvation. We preach forgiveness. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Only by vigilance toward everyone's rights do we protect anyone's rights. ~ Leonard Pitts Jr.

This was your heart
This swarm of flies
This was once your mouth
This bowl of lies
You serve them well
I'm not surprised
You're of their kin
You're of their kind ~ Leonard Cohen

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. ~ S. Leonard Rubinstein

I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was. ~ Lydia Leonard

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately. ~ Leonard Nimoy

[R]esearch on perceiver-induced constraint reveals that people do not always account for situational constraints on behavior, even when they themselves have constructed the situation. Thus, perpetrators could have focused on the degraded and pathetic state of their victims as justifica­tion for both their past and their future victimization, even though the per­petrators were actually responsible for their wretched state. ~ Leonard S. Newman

In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment. ~ Leonard Jacobson

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. ~ Leonard Baskin

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace. ~ Leonard Cohen

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) ~ Christopher Nolan

None of it was fair and all to her advantage, the least she could do was be content. ~ Kathleen Leonard

Steam coming off the planet, clouds of fleecy steam as boy and girl populations clash in religious riots, hot and whistling like a graveyard sodomist our little planet embraces its fragile yo-yo destiny, tuned in the secular mind like a dying engine. But some do not hear it this way, some flying successful moon-shot eyes do not see it this way. They do not hear the individual noises shhh,hiss, they hear the sound of the sounds together, they behold the interstices flashing up and down the cone of the flowering whirlwind. ~ Leonard Cohen

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older. ~ Leonard Cohen

It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe. ~ Leonard Nimoy

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. ~ Leonard Cohen

Nothing matters. ~ Leonard Woolf

They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do. ~ Leonard Horn

I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement as some adverse entity, as opposed to it being a manifestation of the desperations of a whole race of people. ~ Leonard Peltier

There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere. ~ Annie Leonard

Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it. ~ Leonard Peikoff

If a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy. ~ Leonard Mlodinow

The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it. ~ Leonard Read

Excellence nourishes the soul. ~ Leonard L. Berry

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so. ~ Leonard Mlodinow